Anna Godbersen Quotes

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Anna Godbersen

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• Envy
• Flattery

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• There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Political
  • Events
  • Meet

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Could
  • Compete
  • Gibson

• Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trump
  • Rights
  • Silent

• Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • War

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls, the North Star shines, as it will shine forever; and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes is clouded over by the final horror. - The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • House
  • Eyes
  • Star

• Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

• Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

  

  Kesha
  • Society

• They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Up

• I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

  

  Allen West
  • Believe

• The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you're nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.

  

  Jim Parrack
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• My restless spirit never could endureTo brood so long upon one luxury,Unless it did, though fearfully, espyA hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  

  John Keats
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Dream

• I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Facts

• Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

  

  Epictetus
  • Envy
  • Fortunate
  • Antagonist

• Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Anna Godbersen
  • Form
  • Envy
  • Flattery