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 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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I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
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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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People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
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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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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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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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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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There's a disconnect between buyers and sellers. Sellers tend to be about at least six months behind the curve.
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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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Video consumption is exploding on-line and on-demand is going to be the dominant way to consume content.