Agents Quotes - Page 25

• If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here.' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Agency, Saying No

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• 'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

  Hugh Jackman

  Night, Broadway, Hearing

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Feelings, Regulation, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.

  Ang Lee

  Reading, People, Projects

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I'd be just another Marvel fan, only with a little bit bigger smile, when I would get the script and be like, "Oh, my gosh, Agent Coulson knows that?

  Clark Gregg

  Fans, Littles, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• Agent Coulson takes the work very seriously. He certainly has some fun with Spider-Man and the others, but he takes each of their tasks, including when they get involved with the drama club, way too seriously. The adventures that they come up with are really exciting.

  Clark Gregg

  Fun, Drama, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

  Shawn Amos

  Father, Careers, Chocolate

  "Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a ‘70s Hollywood Childhood" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

  Jack Johnson

  Ocean, Men, Blessing

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

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• At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

  Bob Hope

  Thinking, Awards, Acting

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• I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hate, Integrity, Mean

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• Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Medicine, Cnn

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• When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Jobs, New York

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

  Danielle Steel

  Long, Rejection, Trying

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• You might be a redneck if when you leave your house, you are followed by federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the only thing you worry about is if you can lose them or not.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Worry, House

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• [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

  Paul Murray Kendall

  Secret, Boards, Riding

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• I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

  Malik Yoba

  Law, Enforcement, Captains

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training.

  Malik Yoba

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Training

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• I had done lots of theater and I really wanted to do screen work. I said to my agent, "Look, I really want to do screen work and I want to concentrate on that now" and he said, "Well, it's going to be tough for you."

  Gwendoline Christie

  Looks, Done, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not saying that I'm the grand genius that came in on a float and made it happen, but they liked my pitch. I was on my way to a camping trip with my daughter when my agent called and said, "This thing came up and it's really wild and crazy, do you want to read it?" And, I said, "Yeah, why don't you just send it to me? But, I'm going on this camping trip, so I probably won't be able to read it until I get back."

  Remi Aubuchon

  Daughter, Crazy, Genius

  Source: collider.com

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• All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, People, Feelings

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com. Summer 2012.

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• I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Years, People, Black

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• Justin Bieber's tour bus was stopped by Canadian border patrol agents. And they found marijuana. The agents said Bieber was a disgrace to Canada and should never come back. Then they found the marijuana.

  Craig Ferguson

  Marijuana, Canada, Borders

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• So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

  Stanley Cavell

  Photography, Long, Wish

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• Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

  John le Carre

  Artist, Assassins, Smugglers

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• Coaches are sales people and change agents.

  Hugh McCutcheon

  People, Coaches, Change Agent

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