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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characters substance
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.
discover happens opera pretend
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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This year, we are certainly creating some pressure on the bottom line by this move in the US to broadband. That's a conscious decision. It is a classic short-term versus long-term trade-off.
auditorium cast lavish people
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.
floor ground higher level today
Willingness to live on the ground floor is at a much higher level today than it was in the mid-1980s.
choice falling happening happens ill result
Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us
finding growth impressive largely matter metaphors since suggestive
Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the application of suggestive metaphors
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Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.
people time
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
above apartments market supply
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.