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Jonathan Miller

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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.


— Jonathan Miller


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The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.


— Jonathan Miller


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What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.


— Jonathan Miller


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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.


— Jonathan Miller


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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.


— Jonathan Miller


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About Jonathan Miller

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Did you know about Jonathan Miller?

King Lear (Director; Vivian Beaumont Theater 4 March to 18 April 2004; 33 performances). The Permissive Society. Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Stage and video director; 2003).

He has also become a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in both Britain and the United States. Trained as a physician 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. In its early days he was an associate director at the Royal National Theatre and later he ran the Old Vic Theatre.

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