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" You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers. "
Robert Gottlieb
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" 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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" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "
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" When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. "
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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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" Controversy sells books. "
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" 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. "
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" How the English love playing at being naughty boys! "
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" 'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. "
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" For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante. "
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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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" Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. "
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" Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. "
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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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" '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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" Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers. "
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" Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.' "
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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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" Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. "
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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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" 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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" When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. "
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" City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. "
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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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" 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? "
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