Agents Quotes - Page 23

• When I wrote Chuky script, I was a student at UCLA, an undergraduate and my biggest aspiration for it was that I would get my foot in a door somewhere, that I would get an agent or something and it was just beyond my wildest dreams that this big-time producer, David Kirschner.

  David Kirschner

  Dream, Doors, Ucla

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects.

  Bostin Christopher

  Cities, Acting, Together

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.

  Edgar Wright

  Fun, Thinking, Lines

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

  Bill Watterson

  Movie, Character, Rights

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• My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

  Charles Stross

  New York, Track, Historic

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• I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

  Charles Stross

  Jobs, Reading, Editors

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

  Charles Stross

  Book, Thinking, Pirate

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.

  John H. Walton

  Strong, Book, Character

  John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.134, InterVarsity Press

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• If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

  Lars Peter Hansen

  Mean, Irrational, Concrete

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• My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

  Christian Cooke

  Brother, My Brother

  "The New Shakespearean: Christian Cooke". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

  Ann Leckie

  Order, Civilisation, Stoops

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• Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

  Kenan Malik

  Exercise, Thinking, Bridges

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• For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that could attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous, I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Years, Ideas, Marketing

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• The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Wisdom Experience, Community

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• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

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• Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Life, Advertising, Standing Out

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• An agent friend of mine who will remain nameless said you can't make a romance about homeless people; nobody wants to see them kiss. And I thought, what a repulsive, repugnant, extraordinary thing to say. I had to think about the fact that the world is probably full of other people who feel like that. The very idea that we spend time trying to humanize humans is extraordinary to me.

  Paul Bettany

  Kissing, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

  Michael Shermer

  Principles, Moral, Accepting

  Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.16, Macmillan

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• The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents.

  Bob Schaffer

  People, Irs, Lawyer

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• Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Secret, Intimate

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu (Chapter XIII: Intelligence and Espionage), 5th century BC.

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• Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

  Sun Tzu

  Secret, Rewards, Given

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• The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

  Sun Tzu

  Sovereign, Treated, Five

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• He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Secret, Use

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• And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

  Sun Tzu

  Intelligent, People, Use

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• I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents.

  Joe Pepitone

  Looks, Enough, Collections

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