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" I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" 'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance. "

Robert Gottlieb

" The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. "

Robert Gottlieb

" I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" '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.' "

Robert Gottlieb

" Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage. "

Robert Gottlieb

" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Controversy sells books. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. "

Robert Gottlieb

" I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful. "

Robert Gottlieb

" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "

Robert Gottlieb

" With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at. "

Robert Gottlieb

" All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 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. "

Robert Gottlieb

" The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. "

Robert Gottlieb

" '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. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Robert Gottlieb

" Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. "

Robert Gottlieb

" You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear. "

Robert Gottlieb

" In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 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

" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "

Robert Gottlieb

" 'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. "

Robert Gottlieb

" The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning. "

Robert Gottlieb