If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of … - Maggie Gyllenhaal

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The order of. . . successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.

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What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

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