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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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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. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#fantasy #i #i think #interested #interesting

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. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#effect #get #help #i #i can

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. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#far #figure #go #i #line

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#connected #especially #everyone #getting #having

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#always #changing #clothes #constantly #either

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#choosing #going #good #good work #inspires

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#bear #dictate #direction #him #his

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#causes #damaged #did #discovering #function