Me Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

9 Me quotes by Robert Gottlieb

Robert Gottlieb’s nine quotes about ‘Me’ give a concise glimpse into his personal perspective. The selection is modest, yet each line carries his thoughtful, literary tone.

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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…

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Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

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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…

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Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more…

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Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

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Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into…

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Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'…

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I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,…

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In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City…

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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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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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