Agents Quotes - Page 34

• My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

  Jensen Ackles

  Jobs, Father, School

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• The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

  Henry Adams

  Lying, Trust No One, Liberty

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Power, Self

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Believe, Islamic

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Stars, Telescopes

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• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  A. R. Ammons

  Stress, Successful, Order

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  Francesca Annis

  Sharks, Starting Out, Actresses

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• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  John Ashcroft

  Fbi Agents, People, Surfing

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• The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Principles, Proactive, Should

  "A Conversation With Michelle Bachelet". www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

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• Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Government, President

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• Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

  Roseanne Barr

  Fats, Interest, Heard

  "Roseanne Barr and Mindy Kaling: Funny Women, Serious Talk". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. November 29, 2013.

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• Satan works through human agents.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Satan, Humans

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• I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Buddhist, Powerful

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• Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

  David Byrne

  Secret, Astronaut, Wanted

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, School, Directors

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• My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Father, Ill

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• I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  World, My Own, I Can

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Evil, Done, Confession

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

  Gail Collins

  Wall, Immigration, Matter

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Real, Seven, Estates

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• My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Real, Light, Names

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• I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Actors, Kind

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• I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

  Claire Danes

  School, Young, Employed

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