Agents Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  World, Destruction, Landmines

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• 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.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Book, Thinking, Ozarks

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• 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.

  Joy Williams

  Thinking, Enough, Ends

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Alexa Vega

  Casting, Kind, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tom Clancy

  New York, Cowboy, Fields

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• 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.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Mother, Stars, Regret

  "Bruce Forsyth: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• 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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Use, Lambs, Temples

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Discussions”

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• 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.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Religious, Men, Order

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.122, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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.'

  Jeremy Grantham

  Intelligent, Reality, Clients

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

  Jake Pavelka

  Bachelors, Members, Casts

  "Jake Pavelka, Vienna Girardi ('The Bachelor')". Digital Spy Interview, www.digitalspy.com. March 2, 2010.

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

  Jason Mewes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Jobs, New York, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Bruce Nash

  Average Joe, Ideas, Hollywood

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• 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.

  Ben Macintyre

  Deception, Secrecy, Crosses

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

  Walter O'Malley

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• 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.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Home, Government, Car

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• [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.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Reality, Average

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

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Stupid, Class

  "Sex and the Much Married Girl (A Salute to Zsa Zsa Gabor)". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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

  Isaac Newton

  Powerful, Science, Skills

  Sir Isaac Newton (1730). “Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.379

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• 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.

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Science, Intelligent

  Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Play, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  John Ciardi

  Hate, Men, Devil

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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• Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

  Ovid

  Gains

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