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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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 16
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Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal
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I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it - how little fighting we did.
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People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.
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I studied English literature I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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