Robert Gottlieb Quotes
Top 87 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.
We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
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.
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
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.
Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
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.
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.
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.
You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
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.
But I had learned a lesson about the overwhelming need of narcissists to be in the right, and to punish those by whom they feel slighted.
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.
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.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.