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" The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" 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. "

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" Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. "

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

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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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" Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? "

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

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

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" '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.' "

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" 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. "

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" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "

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

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" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "

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" You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers. "

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" Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. "

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

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" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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