Quotes by Ayad Akhtar - Page 1

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Inquiry
Understanding
Important Part
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I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Propaganda
Good Bad Feel
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In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Avoiding
Denial
Personal Level
Realise
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I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Aesthetic
Childhood
Identity
Principles
Life Myself Childhood
Consider
Formed
Important Part
Muslim
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I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Activity
Answers
Human Activity
Zone
Questions
Religions
Generally
Best Feel Always
Regularly
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I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Experience
Defined
Difficult
New World
Old Ways
Paradigm
Renewal
Rupture
Self
American Experience
Experience World New
Bright
Old
Immigrant
Ways
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I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Discourse
Ideological
Relate
Issue
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I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Bringing
Concerns
Spokesman
Wrestle
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Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Sooner Or Later
Sooner
Confront
Guided
Extent
Forces
Manipulated
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I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
American Life
Christianity
Evangelical
Judaism
Perspective
Religious
Religious Experience
Central
Life Experience Important
Muslim
Valid
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I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
Ayad Akhtar / Actor
Constraints
Creative
Engagement
Self Expression
Inside
Art Work World
Avoid
Respond
Expectation
Work Art World
Longer
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