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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.
- Editors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
- Editor
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
- Controversy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Controversy sells books.
- Falling In Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
- Publishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a crapshoot, publishing.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020