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“I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.”

Knows Agents Als Hacks

Author:Mark Rydell

“I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.”

Author:Barbara Steele

“I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.”

People Thinking Knows Kind May Happens Causes Term Environmental Factors Nervous Agents Damage Chemicals Pentagon Environmental Factors

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.”

People Thinking Needs Break Presses Agents

Author:Donna Summer

“Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.”

Imagination Boxes Producers Agents Accommodate

Author:Imelda Staunton

“I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.”

Years Whole School Happened Performances Nine Agents Ballet Auditions Visiting Nine Years

Author:Sarah Sutton

“I remember when I was younger. Dad's agent came round, and I asked if she would represent me. She didn't represent children at the time, but I wouldn't let her leave the house until she agreed. I've always been quite headstrong.”

Ifs Children Remember House Dad Rounds Agents Remember When Headstrong

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.”

Three Letters Contact Agents Idiot Editors Foxes Queries Literary Agents

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.”

Trying Agents Editors Newspaper Editors

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.”

People Thinking Wells Said Character Aspect Agents Narrative Hats Expenses Disagree Auditions Thrillers Monologues Christie Showcase

Author:Thomas Howes

“The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.”

Agents Change Agent

Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.”

Children Use Given Teacher Teaching Objects Active Agents Instruction Principal Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Maria Montessori

“To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.”

Thinking Writing Jobs Realizing Rich Agents

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction”

World Destruction Agents Scourge Landmines

Author:Boutros Boutros-Ghali

“I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.”

Thinking Want Book Stories Agents Collections Short Story Scream Pipeline Ozarks

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.”

Thinking Humans Ends Enough Human Beings Contact Agents

Book:Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.”

Knows Kind Agents Casting

Author:Alexa Vega

“All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.”

New York Fields Agents Cowboy

Author:Tom Clancy

“My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.”

Wanted Mother Heaven Stars Walks Stage Regret London Agents

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.”

Ifs Has Beens Use Wanted Happened Agents Temples Priests Lambs Mutton

Book:Discussions

Source: Discussions

“The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.”

Reason Facts Artist Actors Agents

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.”

Men World Order Church Religious Safe Men And Women Agents Call Me Kingship

Book:Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

“I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.”

Children Different Real Actors Gone Function Various Agents Occasions Estates Surfer Different Life Child Actors Estate Agents

Author:Mike Lookinland

“Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'”

Said Reality Seems Might Intelligent Patient Ridiculous Agents Investors Clients Irrational One Love Martians Volatility Keynes

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“I'm probably the only member of the 'Bachelor' cast without an agent!”

Members Casts Agents Bachelors

Author:Jake Pavelka

“No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.”

Author:Jason Mewes

“In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.”

People Ifs Book Shows Bigs Jobs Guy Stage New York Flying Producers Agents Managers Chicago

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.”

Ifs Ideas Difficult Hollywood Average Agents Bother Jane Average Joe

Author:Bruce Nash

“The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.”

Has Beens Known Crosses Accounts Agents Former Deception Operations Officials Broads Committees Secrecy Chairman Defiance Outlines

Author:Ben Macintyre

“I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.”

Thinking Player Baseball Agents Contracts

Author:Walter O'Malley

“Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.”

Ifs Persons Home Government Process Car Accounts Property Hearing Protection Dues Libertarian Boat Agents Furniture Resisting Irs Bank Accounts Due Process

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.”

“It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.”

People Funny Actors Class Stupid Directors Presses Producers Agents

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor

“The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.”

Science Powerful Effects Skills Instinct Agents Insects Brutes

Book:Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

Source: Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.”

Source: Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

“My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.”

Ifs Should Wells Has Beens Ideas Play Jobs Stuff Cases Bears Lucky Let Me Shame London Agents Streaks Devastated Let Me Go Seagull Never Let Me Go

Author:Carey Mulligan

“Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.”

Men World Hate Environment Achieve Devil Conviction Convinced Agents Radical Hated Primitive Be A Man

Author:John Ciardi

“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”

Hands Light Eye Night Black Pieces Tears Wings Good Things Woods Invisible Agents Pale Bloody Prey Crow Pitiful Scarves Macbeth Play Invisible Hand Great Bond

Author:William Shakespeare

“Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.”

Author:Ovid

“The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.”

Book Age Form Common Air Revolution Shapes Spread Invisible Innocent Contact Agents Breathing Outlook Epidemics Germs Carrier Contamination

Author:Arthur Koestler

“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”

Knows May Ends Whole Accepting Know How Our Lives Streets Wind Mere Currents Conviction Determined Agents Definite Invitations Rejecting Free Agents

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice--lose weight.”

Firsts Loses Advice Weight Agents Lose Weight

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'”

“As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.”

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“Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.”

Way Years Helping Dog Rose Fruit Paint Income Agents Owners Fifteen Rabbits Fifteen Years Hens Pottery Janitor

Author:Emily Carr

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.”

Wells May Evil Interest Principles Watches Virtue Society Produce Integrity Aim Institutions Corruption Tendencies Agents Agency Productive Governing

Author:James F. Cooper

“When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."”

Ifs Firsts Said Age Like You Personality Fit Mets Come Up Agents Range Blonde Brunette

Author:Tia Carrere

“My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.”

Bigs Wife My Wife Unhappy Agents Winner Unhappiness

Author:James Denton

“I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.”

Ifs Eye Girl Audience Pressure Agents Mess Public Eye Good Girl

Author:Melissa Joan Hart

“Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.”

People Trying Style Claims Sells Paint Agents Copies Representatives Publishers Exclusive Plagiarism

Author:LeRoy Neiman