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Being a stepfather is a huge challenge.
Jonathan Agnew
Challenge
Stepfather
Huge
Being
I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.
Jonathan Agnew
Day
You
Better
Three
Wish
Whatever
One Day
Only
Take
Tests
Done
Your
Reason
England
Played
Chances
It takes very little effort to make someone happy.
Jonathan Agnew
Happy
Someone
Takes
Make
Very
Effort
Little
Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.
Jonathan Agnew
Fly
Own
Ownership
Flying
My Own
Small
Share
Learnt
Escape
Plane
Fairness matters.
Jonathan Agnew
Matters
Fairness
I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.
Jonathan Agnew
South Africa
Worried
Bit
Feel
Always
South
Huge
Huge Fan
Africa
Fan
Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.
Jonathan Agnew
Amazing
Old
Wife
India
Southern
Rice
Boats
Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.
Jonathan Agnew
Me
Important
Cricket
Most
Most Important Thing
Call
Important Thing
Test
Traditional
The Most Important
Thing
Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.
Jonathan Agnew
Good
You
Science
Rocket Science
Down
Side
Out
Someone
Stump
Bowl
Bowling
Ball
Rocket
Off
Up
Get
Pitches
Just
Length
English
Fraction
In any international sporting career an opportunity comes along that you have to grab. Mine came at Old Trafford in 1985 when I was recalled to the England team to face Australia. It was a huge chance to prove I belonged in the Test side but I failed to take it.
Jonathan Agnew
You
Opportunity
Old
Face
Side
Mine
Take
Failed
Along
Prove
Test
Came
Huge
Australia
Grab
Any
Team
England
International
Recalled
Belonged
Career
Chance
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
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
Jonathan Ross
You
People
Win
Win Or Lose
Remember
Lose
How
How Many People
Die
Whether
Many
Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.
Jonathan Ross
You
People
Dog
Starvation
See
Rarely
Something
Shape
Cruel
Terrible
Lot
Very
Just
Fortunately
The sole purpose of the bedroom is to melt away any stressors.
Jonathan Scott
Sole
Sole Purpose
Melt
Purpose
Bedroom
Any
Away
A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.
Jonathan Scott
Life
Good
Easier
Laundry
Make
Storage
Room
Justin Timberlake is one of our style icons - he does both formal and casual perfectly.
Jonathan Scott
Style
Our
Both
Casual
He
Perfectly
Does
Formal
Justin
Justin Timberlake
Icons
Open concept bathrooms are not the greatest.
Jonathan Scott
Open
Concept
Greatest
Paint and new flooring are simple refreshers. But it's not worth it to update all the kitchen cabinets if it's still the same bad layout.
Jonathan Scott
Worth
Simple
Not Worth It
Worth It
Bad
Kitchen
Layout
New
Still
Update
Same
Paint
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