Emily Gordon: <\/b>New Yorker Festival wrapup quiz! Match the statement with the speaker: <\/p>\n
1. “I had a therapist once who said, ‘When are you going to finish that book? I need something to read.’ It helped a lot. I’ve read so many great books, and I’d like to repay that favor.”<\/p>\n
2. “I am taken by the boldness of any performer who makes a personal decision, who can take an idea and make it happen. I don’t want to name-drop, but most of my friends are film directors, and I was having dinner with some of them in Paris. Roman Polanski said, ‘I want to do Oliver Twist<\/a>.’ ‘Why?’ I said. ‘It was a pretty good musical.’ He said, ‘You don’t understand. My son Elvis—he has to see something.’ Take your craft and make it happen.”<\/p>\n 3. “[That] is the thing I’ve worked hardest on and worked on the most. I was a lazy person until I had to do [it]. But when the chance is really there, I go for it. And I was rewarded. It was a revelation at 36—the more you try the more you get out. Amazing!”<\/p>\n 4. “Classics have the advantage of being models and also being…beyond the fads, and the few that really move you it is important to take into your deepest self.”<\/p>\n 5. “TV is not the answer, for God’s sake…. The government should take an aggressive stand and invest in art in general. When a little kid drops a Coke bottle under his feet in the subway, it’s not bad behavior but a lack of understanding of the art of living.”<\/p>\n 6. “Work every day, find good work habits. Read who you like and figure out why you like it. They don’t owe you something, you owe them<\/i> something.”<\/p>\n 7. “I don’t aim for perfection. I have a fan mentality.”<\/p>\n 8. “You compete with the dead as well as the living—it’s a big crowd you’re competing with!”<\/p>\n 9. “We figure that among New Yorker<\/i> cartoonist bluegrass bands, we’re in the top five.”<\/p>\n 10. “I was working at a job where a lot of people were talking about writing, but not writing. I didn’t want to just talk and not write.”<\/p>\n 11. “My grandmother learned this song from a Virginia state senator when she was nine years old.”<\/p>\n 12. “I used to never read anything by anyone younger than me. Now I don’t read anything by people older than me! The younger ones have much more to say to me.”<\/p>\n 13. “Any new work creates polemics and discussion—and that’s very healthy.”<\/p>\n 14. “I have my students read Lorrie’s stories<\/a>…. Teaching makes you go out and be social and not have it be all about you.”<\/p>\n 15. “Recently I found myself panning El Greco<\/a>. El Greco didn’t come all this way to be panned by an American!”<\/p>\n 16. “I got somethin’, but it’s not the banjo.”<\/p>\n 17. “Are there any ex-English majors here? Tell me, where is the big money they promised?”<\/p>\n\n