Business Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

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The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight…

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Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

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The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do…

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City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

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You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the…

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Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity?…

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Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor…

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As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with…

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After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally…

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'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the…

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Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

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We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.

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When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…

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Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

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Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made…

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Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

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What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of…

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For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

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Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in…

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I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

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You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series…

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