Agents Quotes - Page 30

• I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so lucky that I met with an agent, and he sent me on an audition for a TV pilot, and I happened to book it. It was like complete luck that it happened.

  Abby Brammell

  Book, School, Giving

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas John Slaughter. The Andy Griffith Show hired me to play Thelma Lou. I only worked when they called me. I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent's commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.

  Betty Lynn

  Taken, Texas, Play

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• I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something.

  Milla Jovovich

  Writing, Upset, Next

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2010.

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• I'm a free agent so I'm probably gonna be signing a major deal that I'm gonna be announcing pretty soon, and a few good singles are coming out.

  Tyga

  Singles, Coming Out, Signing

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

  John Dewey

  Play, Atmosphere, Spirit

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Men, Office

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• The first thing my agent told me in 1959 was he said you have to have something recognizable that people will remember. “What are you? Do you have cleft in your chin? You have a Jimmy Stewart kind of talk?” And I thought I don’t know what I can give them that will be different.

  George Hamilton

  People, Giving, Firsts

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay took drum lessons from [McCann's] dad, who taught a lot of the drummers in Kingston. He said that when he was in Grade 9, the Hip were the model; the goal was to get an agent and gig as much as possible.

  Sarah Harmer

  Dad, Goal, Lessons

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

  Robert Rodale

  Inspirational, Art, Nature

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• Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I promise. I promise. I guarantee it. If you find it didn't help you, lemme know. I will let you Taser me in the face. And by "me," I mean, some other guy who will be my stand-in. Probably some real estate agent or tollbooth attendant.

  Chuck Wendig

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

  Gordon Allport

  Focus, Release, Psychiatry

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• This MacGyver is a twentysomething agent who, rather than operating on his own, is part of a team engaged in high-risk missions that take them around the world. Other cast members include George Eads as Jack Dalton, Tristin Mays as Riley Davis, Justin Hires [late of the TV version of Rush Hour] as Wilt Bozer and Sandrine Holt as Patricia Thornton.

  Lucas Till

  Team, Risk, World

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.

  Kate DiCamillo

  New York, Hollies, Minneapolis

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview by Claire Kirch, www.publishersweekly.com. September 9, 2010.

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• If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt is entirely compatible with its being a horrible murder, if the "hunter" is an assassin and the prey his victim. That hunter's shot may still be outstandingly, fully apt, if it manifests the agent's competence in both archery dexterity and shot selection.

  Ernest Sosa

  Archery, Assassins, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.

  Ernest Sosa

  Risk, May, Littles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed.

  Ernest Sosa

  Risk, Evaluation, Succeed

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?

  Ernest Sosa

  Ifs And, Assessment, Risk

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.

  Allen W. Wood

  Iron, Feelings, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Special

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Practice, Luxury

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

  Eden Robinson

  Romance, Serious, Stories

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I was just endorsed by ICE. They've never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE. I was just recently endorsed - 16,500 Border Patrol agents.

  Donald Trump

  Ice, Immigration, Borders

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

  Micah Perks

  Book, Editors, Heard

  "Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 28, 2016.

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• In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.

  Debra Hamel

  Book, Writing, Pages

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.

  Norman Lear

  New York, Stars, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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