Good Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

9 Good quotes by Robert Gottlieb

Gottlieb’s editor’s eye gives good a polished, narrative‑focused angle, presented in a concise yet insightful collection.

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Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

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Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of…

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Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to…

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What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.

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In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of…

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The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes,…

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Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different…

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There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring…

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One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to…

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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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