Ayad Akhtar Quotes

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

Any Anything Awareness Bringing Concerns Free Freedom My Own Other Own Political Process Spokesman Than Wrestle

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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

Artist Bad Feel Good Job Offer Propaganda Whether

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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

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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

Activity Always Answers Ask Best Biggest Feel Generally Human Human Activity I Feel I Feel Like Like May Questions Regularly Religions Zone

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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

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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

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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

Around Because Discourse Feel Goes I Feel I Feel Like Ideological Important Intellectual Issue Level Like Lot Political Relate Storyteller

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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

About Also Avoiding Denial Early Level Personal Personal Level Realise Someone Something Started Trying Who Writer

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Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

~ Ayad Akhtar

Been Has-Been Human Important Important Part Inquiry Means Part Religion Understanding

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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

Beyond Come Confront Control Doing Extent Forces Got Guided Later Manipulated Our Reality Sooner Sooner Or Later Understand Which Who

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Ayad Akhtar

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