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Jonathan Miller
British
Entertainer
Born:
Jul 21
,
1934
Now
People
Think
Time
You
Yourself
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I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
Jonathan Miller
Just
Hog
Really
Whole
Jew
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
Jonathan Miller
Me
You
People
Doctor
Behavior
Same Thing
Says
Exactly
About
Directing
Point
Like
Know
Audience
Doing
Lot
Yes
Same
Taught
Being
Where
Manifold
Thing
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
Jonathan Miller
Science
Self-Sufficient
Activity
A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.
Jonathan Miller
People
Fact
Almost
Scientists
Lot
In Fact
Interest
Universal
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.
Jonathan Miller
Spiritual
Vision
Political
First
Way
Moralist
Someone
Physicists
Had
Developed
He
Highly
Clearly
Like
His
His Way
Very
Quite
Order
Einstein
Who
Many
Biologists
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
You
Experience
Burden
Past
Think
Only
Got
Go
Oppressive
Avant-Garde
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
Jonathan Miller
Work
Fashion
You
Result
Think
Sort
Audience
Literary
Against
Deconstruction
Asking
Meanings
Now
Gratuitous
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Jonathan Miller
Extraordinary
Virtue
Window
Case
Something
Only
Ideal
Invisible
Between
Make
Became
Makes
Surface
Itself
Reflects
Difference
Which
Apparent
Whose
Present
Startled
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
Jonathan Miller
Fault
Sign
Outward
Errors
Very
Taste
Often
Sensibility
Deep
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
Made
Translation
Out
Characters
Makes
Does
Survive
Substance
Literature
Interesting
Sentences
Novel
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