"Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and……" — Robert Gottlieb
"Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure."
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66 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb has 66 quotes on this site.
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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
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An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
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I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
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In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New…
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Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much…
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How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
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In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
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Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
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As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
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Controversy sells books.
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Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
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More Classics Quotes
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one of 154 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers…
— Piers Anthony
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow…
— Oscar Wilde
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
— John Stuart Mill
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Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It…
— Unknown Author
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget…
— Fred Savage
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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
— Richard Attenborough
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Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you
— Nas
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The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to…
— Michael York
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Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck…
— Liev Schreiber
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They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
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