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" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "
Robert Gottlieb
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" 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. "
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" Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. "
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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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" It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again. "
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" The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into. "
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" The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities. "
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" 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. "
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" Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. "
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" 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. "
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" City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile. "
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Value
City
" Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. "
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" As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course. "
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Editor
" Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. "
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Always
Him
Up
" Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty. "
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" Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company. "
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Year
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Love
" There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. "
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Illumination
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" I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean. "
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You
Say
Help
" 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. "
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Company
Dancers
Great
" 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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New
" Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? "
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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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" In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. "
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" Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. "
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" 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. "
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" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "
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" We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. "
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Others
Over
Been
" 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. "
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Books
Know
Why
" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "
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Point
Pieces
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" Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. "
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