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" Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! "

Robert Gottlieb

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" Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach? "

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" 'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial. "

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" Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. "

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" 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. "

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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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" '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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" What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. "

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" 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. "

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

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" It's a crapshoot, publishing. "

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" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "

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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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" The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid. "

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" With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel. "

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" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "

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" What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. "

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