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Jonathan Miller

"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."

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"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"People always make choices, always take sides!"

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"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

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"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."
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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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"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."
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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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"The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world."
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"People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists."
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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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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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