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.

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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...

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...

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...

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 wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to...

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...