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" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "

" Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. "

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

" We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. "

" The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. "

" Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how. "

" At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. "

" '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.' "

" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "

" 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. "

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

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. "

" Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers. "

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

" There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation. "

" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "

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

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" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "

" Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform. "

" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "

" 'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist. "

" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "

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

" Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. "

" Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket. "

" 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. "

" What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. "

" What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. "

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

" For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. "