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Ayad Akhtar Quotes

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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 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.  (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 Quotes) The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others  (Ayad Akhtar Quotes) 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 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human  (Ayad Akhtar Quotes) 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 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  (Ayad Akhtar Quotes)