Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)

Gwen Cooper

Gwen Cooper is a fictional character portrayed by Welsh actress Eve Myles in the BBC science-fiction television programme Torchwood, a spin-off of the long-running series Doctor Who. The lead female character, Gwen has featured in every episode of the show to date as well as two crossover episodes of Doctor Who. Gwen appears in Expanded Universe material such as the Torchwood novels and audiobooks, comic books and radio plays. Portraying Gwen increased Eve Myles' profile as an actress and has been cited as effective in promoting her native Wales.

Gwen is introduced as an audience surrogate, much like the perennial "companion" character in Doctor Who. Within the series narrative, Gwen is a South Wales Police officer who discovers the mysterious Torchwood Institute, into which she is recruited by Captain Jack Harkness. Gwen operates as a field agent on Torchwood missions and brings a humane and rounded approach to her team's investigations of extraterrestrial cases through her police procedural training. Despite promoting her as empathetic and conscientious the creative team have also stressed Gwen's moral ambiguity by having her ethically compromised by her line of work.

Gwen starts off in the mould of the "girl next door", and becomes more militant as the series progresses. As the character has developed as an action heroine the production team have also sought to keep the character grounded through her on screen family. The relationship dynamics between Gwen, her boss Jack and her boyfriend-cum-husband Rhys typify the character's conflict between her domestic world and her extraordinary life with Torchwood. Reviewers have generally responded positively to the conflicting elements of Gwen's characterisation and Eve Myles' portrayal. Eve Myles received a Welsh BAFTA for the first series of the show and has been nominated for several other acting awards across each of Torchwood's four series'.

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Quotes·Quotations by Gwen Cooper

Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper from Torchwood

¶ Martha: Jack's right. These attacks are not random. They're clinical, professional. More like assassinations.
Gwen: Except Barry Leonard was a student. Who'd assassinate a student?
Martha: Student loans company?
Gwen: Yeah, I think you just cracked it.
[They both laugh.]
[Torchwood, Reset (2.6)]

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

Matthew Gray Gubler (1980- )

Matthew Gray Gubler (1980- )

Matthew Gray Gubler (born March 9, 1980) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as the criminal profiler Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds, of which he has also directed seven episodes. Gubler has appeared in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, (500) Days of Summer and as the voice of Simon in Alvin and the Chipmunks and its two sequels.

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Quotes·Quotations by Matthew Gray Gubler

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Matthew Gray Gubler as Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds

¶ Bob Dylan once said, "I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay." [Criminal Minds 04x06 The Instincts]

¶ "What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret fo the father." Friedrich Nietzsche. [Criminal Minds 04x07 Memoriam]

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

Grusinskaya (Grand Hotel)

Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

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Quotes·Quotation by Grusinskaya

Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

¶ I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. His rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows.

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Quotes·Quotation by Groucho Marx

Animals

¶ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

Entertainment·Television

¶ I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Food·Dieting

¶ Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

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Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

¶ How much would you want to run into an open manhole?

¶ One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers (1932)

¶ Tell him I've got one.

Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush from A Day at the Races (1937)

¶ If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you!

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

Matt Groening

Matt Groening

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Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of her films were sensational hits, and all but three of her twenty-four Hollywood films were profitable. Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances". She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She immediately stirred interest with her first silent film, Torrent, released in 1926; a year later, her performance in Flesh and the Devil, her third movie, made her an international star.

With her first talking film, Anna Christie (1930), she received an Academy Award nomination. MGM marketers enticed the public with the catch-phrase "Garbo talks!" That same year she won a second Oscar nomination for her performance in Romance. In 1932, her immense popularity allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract, and she became increasingly choosy about her roles. Many critics and film historians consider her performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille to be her finest. The role gained her a third Academy Award nomination. After working exclusively in dramatic films, Garbo turned to comedy with Ninotchka (1939), which earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, and Two-Faced Woman (1941).

In 1941, she retired after appearing in only twenty-seven films. Although she was offered many opportunities to return to the screen, she declined most of them. Instead, she lived a private life, shunning publicity.

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Quotes·Quotation by Greta Garbo


Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

¶ I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life.

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

Gretel (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters)

Gemma Arterton as Gretel from Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Richard Greenberg (1958- )

Richard Greenberg (1958- )

Richard Greenberg (born 22 February 1958) is an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle-class American life. He has had more than 25 plays premiere on and off-broadway in New York City and eight at Los Angeles' South Coast Repertory Theatre, including The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, and Hurrah at Last.

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Quotes·Quotations by Richard Greenberg

Civility

¶ I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

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

Greece & Greek

Greece

Greece i/ˈɡriːs/ (Greek: Ελλάδα, Ellada, IPA: [eˈlaða] historically in Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellas, IPA: [eˈlas] and [helːás] respectively), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Elliniki Dimokratia, IPA: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in Southern Europe, politically considered part of Western Europe. Athens is the capital and the largest city in the country (its urban area also including Piraeus). The population of the country is about 11 million.

Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at 2,917 m (9,570 ft).

Modern Greece traces its roots to the civilization of ancient Greece, generally considered the cradle of Western civilization. As such it is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy. This legacy is partly reflected in the seventeen UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in Greece, ranking Greece 7th in Europe and 13th in the world. The modern Greek state was established in 1830, following the Greek War of Independence.

Greece has been a member of what is now the European Union since 1981 and the eurozone since 2001, NATO since 1952, and is a founding member of the United Nations. Greece is a developed country with an advanced, high-income economy and very high standards of living (including the 21st highest quality of life as of 2010). Since late 2009, the Greek economy has been hit by a severe economic and financial crisis resulting in the Greek government requesting €240 billion in loans from EU institutions, a substantial debt write-off, and unpopular austerity measures.

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Greek·Hellenic Proverbs

Summer

¶ It will not always be summer.

Sword

¶ The sword knows no friends.

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

Sarah GRAINMAN (Knight Rider)

Deanna Russo as Dr. Sarah Graiman from Knight Rider (2008 TV series)

Daughter of Charles Graiman, Owner of KITT and romantic interest of Michael Knight.

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