Robert Gottlieb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Hard Work #Dancer #Actresses
Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Meditation #Dying #Beloved
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Endure
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#America #Nutcrackers #December
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Mean #Lunch #Editing
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Boys #Naughty
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

#Kindness #Hard Work #Men
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Art #Knowing #Ballet
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.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Fate #Psychics #Hobbies
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#People #Fixed #Sentences
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Strong #Editors #Selfless
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#Editors #Different #Our Relationship

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