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" In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand. "

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" We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can. "

Robert Gottlieb

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Best

Right

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Gottlieb

Course

Editor

" Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "

" 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. "

" The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "

" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

" 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. "

" Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. "

Robert Gottlieb

Insecure

Vulnerable

" Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. "

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

" Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. "

" 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. "

" Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards. "

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

" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "

Robert Gottlieb

Publishing

Crapshoot

" One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind? "

" 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

Lawyer

Father

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "