Agents Quotes - Page 37

• I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

  Alan Rickman

  Very Good, Turns, Snape

  "Alan Rickman Was J.k. Rowling's Secret-keeper" by Scott Harris, www.mtv.com. January 04, 2012.

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• The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

  Scott Ritter

  Way, Ifs

  "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.

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• Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

  Nolan Ryan

  Moss, Houston, Contracts

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• Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Government, Needs, Citizens

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• You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

  Steven Seagal

  Powerful, Japan, Cia Agents

  "Steven Seagal Gets a Shot at Stardom". Interview with Patrick Goldstein, articles.latimes.com. February 14, 1988.

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• An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

  Jane Seymour

  America, Accents, Ifs

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• No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

  Jane Seymour

  War, Names, Dancing

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• I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Perseverance, Successful, Becoming

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• I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Movie, School

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• When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.

  James Surowiecki

  Clever, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Mixed Motives". www.newyorker.com. November 8, 2004.

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• Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

  Gloria Swanson

  Real, Artist, Directors

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• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Flower, Cells

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• You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

  Josh Turner

  Growing Up, Home, Sacrifice

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• My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

  Johnny Vegas

  Driven, Type, Said

  "Here's Johnny ..." by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2006.

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• My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

  Johnny Vegas

  Age, Roles, Century

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• I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?

  Julie Walters

  Character, Phones, Play

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• The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Kings, Pennsylvania, Addresses

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• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  Rachel Weisz

  Change, Surnames

  Interview with Emma Forrest, www.indexmagazine.com. 2001.

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• Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

  Orson Welles

  Strong Women, Lawyer, Happened

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• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  Orson Welles

  Fighting, Sitting, Use

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• Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

  Rebecca West

  Powerful, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.175, Open Road Media

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• If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

  Thornton Wilder

  Secret, Acting, Actors

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• Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Selfishness, Confidential, Caution

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.101, NYU Press

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• When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

  Loretta Young

  Money, Real, Way

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