Ayad Akhtar Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 28, 1970

Topics

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I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Jim Talent

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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.

John Foster Dulles

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Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

John Cusack

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I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing.

Andrea Bocelli

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I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

Megyn Kelly

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In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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The kitchen is the heart of our home.

Trisha Yearwood

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People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Roy Ayers

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The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

Mitchell Baker

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I've just always rocked the goatee. Maybe a beard for a minute or some thick sideburns, but I've only been clean-shaven for, like, two days in my adult life.

Jason Winston George

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But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

Debbie Harry

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I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Chelsea Cain

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