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" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ladies
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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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Why
Common Sense
You
" 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? "
Robert Gottlieb
World
Success
Saying
" I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning. "
Robert Gottlieb
Meaning
Work
Understand
" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Folk
Dance
Men
" 'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Mark
River
Light
" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Tone
Relationship
Ballet
" One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. "
Robert Gottlieb
Those
Memoir
Great
" The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance. "
Robert Gottlieb
Better
Great
Scenery
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Knowledge
Future
Need
" Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny. "
Robert Gottlieb
Soldiers
Charm
Up
" I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. "
Robert Gottlieb
Selling
No Problem
Matter
" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "
Robert Gottlieb
Work
Nobody
Could
" Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans. "
Robert Gottlieb
Company
Doing
Jazz
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Bad
Story
New
" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
Robert Gottlieb
Illumination
Final
Consolation
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Matters
Movies
Black
" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "
Robert Gottlieb
Set
His
Favorite
" 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
Lake
First
Hated
" Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater. "
Robert Gottlieb
Two
Faith
Dance
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Yourself
Book
Important
" I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. "
Robert Gottlieb
Always
Overnight
New
" Controversy sells books. "
Robert Gottlieb
Books
Sells
Controversy
" For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante. "
Robert Gottlieb
Know
Way
Ballet
" Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. "
Robert Gottlieb
Lunch
Pencil
Editing
" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "
Robert Gottlieb
Music
Moments
Romantic
" The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "
Robert Gottlieb
Iron
Russia
Mysterious
" 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
Me
Lawyer
Father
" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "
Robert Gottlieb
May
Text
You
" '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
Sleeping
Go
Wrong
" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "
Robert Gottlieb
Us
Ballet
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