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" Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard. "
Robert Gottlieb
Yourself
Book
Important
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" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "
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" Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach? "
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" 'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level. "
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" We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole. "
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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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" Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty. "
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" You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. "
Robert Gottlieb
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You
" The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them. "
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" 'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning. "
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" If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine. "
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" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "
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" Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! "
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Orders
Going
" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "
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History
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" There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again. "
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Bad
Story
New
" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "
Robert Gottlieb
Anyway
America
Far
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Me
Lawyer
Father
" Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dance
Simple
Stories
" '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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World
Gathering
Men
" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
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Illumination
Final
Consolation
" Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. "
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World
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" I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half. "
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Remember
Last
" Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me. "
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Dance
" No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. "
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" Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans. "
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" How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance. "
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Dance
Looking
" With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel. "
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" What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. "
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Name
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" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "
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" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "
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Action
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You