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" The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. "
Robert Gottlieb
Been
Finest
Great
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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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Curiosity
People
Writing
" 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
" Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway. "
Robert Gottlieb
Run
Spring
Me
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Paris
Famous
Done
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Watching
Remember
Last
" 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
Know
Best
Right
" 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
" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "
Robert Gottlieb
City
Great
Crisis
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Good
Dance
Theatre
" Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. "
Robert Gottlieb
Lunch
Pencil
Editing
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ending
Beginning
Book
" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "
Robert Gottlieb
Music
Moments
Romantic
" At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. "
Robert Gottlieb
Fart
You
Point
" In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two. "
Robert Gottlieb
You
World
Today
" You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. "
Robert Gottlieb
Death
Life
You
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Life
Kindness
Hard Work
" 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
" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "
Robert Gottlieb
Age
Singing
Stars
" Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. "
Robert Gottlieb
Once
Little Man
Who
" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ladies
Support
You
" The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning. "
Robert Gottlieb
America
Lake
First Time
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Year
Me
Love
" Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform. "
Robert Gottlieb
Journalism
Acting
Born
" The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. "
Robert Gottlieb
Modern
Left
Art
" Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. "
Robert Gottlieb
Film
Format
Remember
" Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' "
Robert Gottlieb
Me
Dance
Together
" You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear. "
Robert Gottlieb
You
Book
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