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

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Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in...

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in...

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but...

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but...

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make...

Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to...

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to...

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if...

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if...

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators...

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators...

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying...

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying...

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're...

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're...

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.