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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This made some buyers hesitate; there were people on the sidelines waiting to see what would happen,
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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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As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.
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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.
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People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.
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Buyers became nervous. People are waiting to see what's going to happen.
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The industry is in the middle of a truly massive change.
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He's trying to use the strategy of Greenspan-speak - to temper homebuyers' euphoria,
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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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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us
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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
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It's not that the rich have become frugal,
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The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.