"I was the only child, and I know……" — Robert Gottlieb
"I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read."
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66 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb
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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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