"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."

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Source : "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.

Ayad Akhtar

#Reality Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Force Quotes

“Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.”
“Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.”
“Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.”
“I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.103, Canongate Books
“What becomes of the broken-hearted? They buy shoes.”

Source : Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group
“I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.”
“I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.”
“Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.”

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