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
Jonathan Miller quotes about
people time
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
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I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
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You're seeing America Online and other AOL Time Warner divisions really working together now, ... You saw the starting point today.
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
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I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
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It felt like there would be no end,
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Supply is there, so if apartments are priced at market level, they are selling. If they're priced above market, they're not even getting shown.
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Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.
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I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
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Willingness to live on the ground floor is at a much higher level today than it was in the mid-1980s.
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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.
close
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.