"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."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Ayad Akhtar

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Expression Quotes

“My fans truly are a part of me, we share something that most people will never experience.”
“The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.”
“If you're a redneck, you have that blood flowing through your veins. That's almost on the bucket list, to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd`s "Freebird" live.”
“BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.”
“If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.”
“Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.”

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