Robert Gottlieb quotes
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“Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.”
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“Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.”
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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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“When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.”
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“Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.”
-- Robert GottliebSource : "Editor in the spotlight" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2007.
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“How the English love playing at being naughty boys!”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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“I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.”
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“An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.”
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“If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.”
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