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Maggie Gyllenhaal

"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

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Donna Grant

"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."

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Donna Grant

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

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Donna Grant

"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."

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Donna Grant

"I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do."

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Donna Grant

"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

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Donna Grant

"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."

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Donna Grant

"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."

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Donna Grant

"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."

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Donna Grant

"I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place."

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Donna Grant

"I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

Conversation

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"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."

Sex

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made."

Movies

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact."

Movies

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."

Work

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."

Life

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over."

Time

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other."

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