"Dickens was born in 1812 and died in……" — Robert Gottlieb
"Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform."
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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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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure…
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
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Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there…
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I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get…
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The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since…
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I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
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