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" Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification. "
Robert Gottlieb
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" I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning. "
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" A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!' "
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" After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world? "
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" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "
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" I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. "
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" Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more. "
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" Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. "
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" What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. "
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" Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? "
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" Controversy sells books. "
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Sells
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" As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional. "
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Seems
Now
" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "
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Beginning
" The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. "
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Finest
Great
" 'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.' "
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Gathering
Men
" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "
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Nobody
Could
" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "
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You
" In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing. "
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Will
View
" Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? "
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Ups And Downs
Dance
Career
" You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers. "
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You
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Stars
" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "
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" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "
Robert Gottlieb
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Ballet
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" Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. "
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" The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. "
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Nothing
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" Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. "
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Without
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" The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into. "
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Street
Best
Fight
" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "
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Rate
You
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" The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. "
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" Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. "
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" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
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