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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracian

Jealousy Win Once Envied Envious Die Oft Applause

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. Kenneth Williams

Writing Coward Collected Tried Records Envied Emulate His Whose Technique

I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that. Catherine Hicks

Work Happy Joy Made Rest Drama Spirits Seemed Something Only Envied Studying Freer Majors Were Campus Than Just Them Us Noticed Notre Dame Whose Dame

I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig. Colson Whitehead

Kids Gig Football Envied Soccer Who Played

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it. Franz Wright

Life Music People Language Everyday Life Everyday Way Compose Bothered Crude Envied Mess Sort Because Always Normally Use Paint Who

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. Irving Layton

Neighbor Envied He Want Loved Wants Much

Do you want to be the girl that's envied, or do you want to be the girl that inspires you? Most people don't know that I am super shy and timid, but online people think I have a big personality. Make sure whatever you do has an overall message and has value. Karen Civil

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.' Martin Freeman

I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot. Michael Bastian

Walls Thomas Foot Envied Head Bound Always Bed Tiny Jefferson

There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to admit. Each was the other's future. Radar served up the exclusives I always envied. Gawker was actually comfortable on the web, in the medium Radar should have made its own. Nick Denton

Future Made Own Other Medium Some Admit Web More Rivalry Had Envied Comfortable Because Always Up Than Common Wanted Should Radar Each Served Actually

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. Rowan Williams

Age Culture Admired Something Spiritually Envied Well Sensitive Might Then

I always envied them, the owners of the cars with the white plates who can be seen around Jerusalem. I always wanted to be one of them. We call them U.N., even though U.N. are generally foreign correspondents with leased cars and yellow plates. Sayed Kashua

Car Seen White Though Generally Envied Call Around Always Foreign Yellow Owners Wanted Them Who Even Plates Jerusalem

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. Sydney Pollack

People College Never Envied Always Did Regretted Who

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. Tom Stoppard

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