Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)

Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)

Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the author's children's fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became an important supporting character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings.

Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk, who lived near the Gladden Fields. Originally known as Sméagol, he was later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat". Gollum was once a hobbit who became corrupted by the One Ring. His life was extended far beyond its natural limits by the effects of possessing the Ring, which he frequently referred to as "my precious" and "my birthday present". After having it stolen by Bilbo Baggins, Gollum slavishly pursued it for the rest of his life.

During his centuries under the Ring's influence, Gollum came to love and hate the Ring, just as he loved and hated himself. Throughout the story, Gollum is seen communing with his ego, torn between his lust for the Ring and his desire to be free of it.

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Quotes·Quotation by Gollum

Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings

¶ My precious.

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Gold Hat (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Gold Hat from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

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Quotes·Quotation by Gold Hat

Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

¶ Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

Anna Godbersen (1980- )

Anna Godbersen (1980- )

Anna Godbersen (born April 10, 1980) is an American writer. She is the author of the series The Luxe, with The Luxe, the first book in the series, being her debut novel. The first book in her new series, Bright Young Things, was released on October 12, 2010.

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Quotes·Quotations by Anna Godbersen

Love

¶ The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples... [The Luxe]

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God (Evan Almighty, 2007)

God from Evan Almighty (2007)

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Quotes·Quotations by Morgan Freeman

¶ Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be couragous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Freeman

Gloria Swanson (1899–1983)

Gloria Swanson (1899–1983)

Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category. She had also produced her own films such as the controversial Sadie Thompson and The Love of Sunya. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser.

However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into theater and television. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film star, in the critically acclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950).

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Quotes·Quotation by Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard

¶ And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after Salome we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

¶ I am big! It's the pictures that got small.

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Gina Gershon (1962- )

Gina Gershon (1962- )

Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American film, television and stage actress, singer and author, known for her roles in the films Cocktail (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1996), Face/Off (1997), The Insider (1999), Demonlover (2002), Category 7: The End of the World (2005), P.S. I Love You (2007) and Five Minarets in New York (2010). She is currently a supporting cast member of the HBO series How to Make It in America.

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Quotes·Quotations by Gina Gershon

Gina Gershon as Sharon McCarthy from P.S. I Love You (2007)

¶ Which you never had. Gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

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Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner

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Quotes·Quotations by Gilda Radner

Appearance

@ I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.

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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." For example, Chesterton wrote "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."

Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics and even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the universal appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both progressivism and conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify such a position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius". Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Cardinal Newman, and John Ruskin.

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Quotes·Quotation

Art

¶ Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Love

¶ The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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André Gide (1869-1951)

André Gide (1869-1951)

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straitlaced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as suggested by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR.

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Quotes·Quotations by Andre Gide

Attitudes

¶ It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Wisdom

@ La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
[Les Nourritures Terrestres [Fruits of the Earth] (1897), book I]

Darcy E. Gibbons

Darcy E. Gibbons

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Quotes·Quotations by Darcy E. Gibbons

Attitudes

¶ Success is just a matter of attitude.