Ayad Akhtar Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
-
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
-
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
-
I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
-
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
-
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
-
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
-
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
-
If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
-
I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
-
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
-
I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.
-
I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
-
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
-
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
-
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
-
Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.
-
We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
-
My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
-
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
-
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
-
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
-
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.
-
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.
