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" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "
Robert Gottlieb
Publishing
Crapshoot
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" 'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. "
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" Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices. "
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" The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney. "
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" What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. "
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" I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. "
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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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" Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. "
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" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "
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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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" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "
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" Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. "
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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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