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Quote by Robert Duvall

“When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.”

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Robert Duvall is a renowned American actor, born on January 5, 1931. Known for his exceptional performances in classic films such as 'Forrest Gump' and 'The Great Gatsby', Duvall has had a career spanning over half a century. His extensive range of roles and profound acting skills have earned him widespread acclaim. more

“The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.”

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Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

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Book:The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches

Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches

“Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.”