"When I was at Cambridge in the early……" — Robert Gottlieb
"When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills."
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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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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
— John Belushi
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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