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" The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "
Robert Gottlieb
Iron
Russia
Mysterious
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" 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
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Easy
Consistency
Time
" A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. "
Robert Gottlieb
Important
Survival
Celebrate
" 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
" 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
" All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ways
Different
Ballet
" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "
Robert Gottlieb
Point
Pieces
Strong
" Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket. "
Robert Gottlieb
You
Sea
See
" 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
" Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. "
Robert Gottlieb
Decide
Start
Never
" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Tone
Relationship
Ballet
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Fun
Run
Long
" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "
Robert Gottlieb
Me
Far
Dancers
" In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing. "
Robert Gottlieb
World
Will
View
" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rich
Million
Write
" 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
" Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. "
Robert Gottlieb
Ideal
World
Us
" 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
" 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
" As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. "
Robert Gottlieb
Keep
Company
Ballet
" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rate
You
Wisdom
" One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind? "
Robert Gottlieb
Determination
Blind
People
" Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at. "
Robert Gottlieb
Dog
City
Decision
" Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. "
Robert Gottlieb
Music
Moments
Romantic
" 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
" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "
Robert Gottlieb
Work
Nobody
Could
" 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. "
Robert Gottlieb
Strong
City
Great
" 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
" 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
" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "
Robert Gottlieb
City
Great
Crisis