Abecasis Gonzalez Quotes & Sayings

We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview ... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage. — Francis Schaeffer

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him. — Stephen Graham

I ain't sayin' I'm no better than anybody else, but I'll be damned if I ain't just as good! — Oscar Hammerstein II

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas. — Henri Matisse

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both. — Junot Diaz

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen