Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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I don't resent anything.
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It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.
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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
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I remember making up songs in my head.
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
