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Robert Gottlieb Quotes

It’s often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it’s awkward, as if the writer doesn’t know when the book is over and nervously says it all again Picture Quote #1

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called ‘Call Me Ben,’ combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as ‘Ben.’ Picture Quote #1

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ and no ballet is harder to get right Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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What really matters is that ‘Black Swan’ deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially ‘The Red Shoes,’ another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal Picture Quote #1

Black Swan’ does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with ‘The Wrestler,’ only with a prettier protagonist Picture Quote #1

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, ‘Bleak House’ is, for many readers, Dickens’s greatest novel Picture Quote #1

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it Picture Quote #1

Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there’s anything wrong with ‘Casino Royale.’ But ‘Happy Feet’ - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can’t resist straying into the Inspirational Picture Quote #1

Empty Moves’ is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning Picture Quote #1

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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different Picture Quote #1

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives Picture Quote #1

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil Picture Quote #1

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it Picture Quote #1

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It’s often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it’s awkward, as if the writer doesn’t know when the book is over and nervously says it all again. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called ‘Call Me Ben,’ combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as ‘Ben.’ (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ and no ballet is harder to get right. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) 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. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) 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. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) 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. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) What really matters is that ‘Black Swan’ deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially ‘The Red Shoes,’ another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) Black Swan’ does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with ‘The Wrestler,’ only with a prettier protagonist. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, ‘Bleak House’ is, for many readers, Dickens’s greatest novel. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there’s anything wrong with ‘Casino Royale.’ But ‘Happy Feet’ - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can’t resist straying into the Inspirational. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) Empty Moves’ is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning. (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil (Robert Gottlieb Quotes) Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it (Robert Gottlieb Quotes)

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