Robert Gottlieb Quotes

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

  Robert Gottlieb

  America, Nutcrackers, December

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• 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

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• An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Strong, Editors, Selfless

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• I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

  Robert Gottlieb

  People, Fixed, Sentences

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• Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Meditation, Dying, Beloved

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• Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Endure, Transformed, Originals

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• Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Mean, Editing, Lunch

  "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!

  Robert Gottlieb

  Boys, Naughty, English Love

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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.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Kindness, Hard Work, Men

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• Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Art, Knowing, Ballet

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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.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Fate, Murder Mysteries, Psychics

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• If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Editors, Different, Our Relationship

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