Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Robert Gottlieb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1931

Topics

MusiciansLongWhySheHerHerself

You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.

Jim Brown

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Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

John Burnside

BirdsGoNowMoreStillPesticides

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Andrew Pyper

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You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

Ann Powers

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Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

John Travolta

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I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Dick Van Dyke

BusinessCaptainNeverRadioOut

I don't know what I would have done without acting. I officially fell into it around age 6 in a class play that reimagined 'The Ugly Duckling.' My joy in performing was so boundless, you would have thought I'd just won a Tony.

Ari Graynor

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I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

Rick Riordan

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My mother had to tailor what I watched.

Ryan Gosling

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I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

Mario Batali

FoodMeLookingBelieveYouParty

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

Mark Pincus

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