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" I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "

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" As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. "

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" Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. "

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" You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing. "

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" As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course. "

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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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" 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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" Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more. "

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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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" Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. "

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" 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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" Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. "

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" 'Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?' "

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" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "

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" Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. "

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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. "

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" Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" How the English love playing at being naughty boys! "

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