Ayad Akhtar Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
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Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.
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I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
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It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
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Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
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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.
