Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBEis an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specializing in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth21 July 1934
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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
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I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
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There was a negative swirl in the market; every pronouncement using the bubble term made buyers pause. We are not seeing prices fall; we are just seeing fewer sales.
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It's not a buyer's market, but we're close to equilibrium.
I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
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I've learned more about leadership from these officers than I have in any class.
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It's amazing we have 4 million people who access us over broadband, because we make it difficult to access us over broadband,
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What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.
What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.
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Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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You have to look at the opera as not being about fidelity, but who you think you are and what happens when you pretend to be someone else and you discover you are that someone else.
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Video consumption is exploding on-line and on-demand is going to be the dominant way to consume content.
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There's a disconnect between buyers and sellers. Sellers tend to be about at least six months behind the curve.