"What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees -……" — Robert Gottlieb
"What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground."
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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 Ballets Quotes
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I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an…
— Alan Bennett
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I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come…
— Robert Caro
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is…
— Karen Kain
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Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry.…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
— Bebe Neuwirth
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The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used…
— Gelsey Kirkland
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I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater,…
— Misty Copeland
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The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing…
— Jill Scott
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t…
— Susan Sontag
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