Managers Quotes - Page 21

• My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role. As any motorcycle enthusiast can probably attest to, getting your motorcycle looking and riding the best certainly holds a high rating of importance. And if I don't finish the Lego city with my son, then I meet the wrath of an extremely assertive four-year-old project manager.

  Danielle Cormack

  Passion, Son, Wrath

  "Danielle Cormack: What Love, Laughter and Legos Have to Do with Everything". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

  William Mapother

  New York, Opportunity, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.

  Michel Martin

  Daughter, Powerful, Husband

  "Nina Simone's Daughter Says This Film Gets Her Mom's Story Straight". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, People, Wrecks

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.

  Stephan James

  Play, Names, Directors

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• A lot of artists still will not get that far. And get that far and be as successful. So, it's a great thing for me, and hopefully I can make it to number 10. And then I would want to start managing other artists, 'cause I think the best manager is an artist, his, or herself, that has been in the business and been successful and knows the ins and outs of the business.

  Ginuwine

  Successful, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."

  Baron Vaughn

  Years, Agents, Answers

  "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

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• The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many secrets and details that don't necessarily get shot in an adaptation. They give you a cushion underneath everything. The detail in the character, the detail in the tone.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Book, Character, Night

  "Tom Hiddleston talks John le Carré's The Night Manager". Empire Interview, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Night, Thinking

  "Tom Hiddleston talks John le Carré's The Night Manager". Interview with Ian Nathan, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I never had a checkbook. It used to be cash in hand, stuff in the pocket, or a manager would keep some accounts and give me money. I started to wonder what it must feel like to actually make a profit, pay taxes, and to have a phone listing, and a manager. And also, I was sick of sleeping around every night.

  Iggy Pop

  Sleep, Night, Phones

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• My manager makes fun of me for the fact that I avoid the money, I’m allergic to money...

  Martin Starr

  Fun, Facts, Allergic

  "Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

  Joan Baez

  People, Justice, Assistants

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you up with these guys doing beats and such...' I was like cool, as long as I can do what I do. Just because kids are going like this now, I'm not going to do that because I am not 18 years old. I'm not going to rap like I'm in grade three because it's popular. I'm just not going to do that. It's not because I'm being stubborn, and I definitely not that guy that is getting older and does not understand the younger generation.

  Shane Bunting

  Rap, Kids, Years

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

  Adam Rapp

  Ideas, Sometimes, Stage Managers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.

  Johnny Marr

  Thinking, Guitar, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

  Jacob Bannon

  Musician, World, Irresponsible

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

  Laura Benanti

  People, Complaining, Agents

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• There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Political, Middle East, Want

  "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.

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• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  Britta Phillips

  Girl, Husband, Trying

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers.

  Vickie Winans

  People, Pests, Manage

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Government, Challenges

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Home, Names, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I saw an article where the manager of the Pussycat Dolls, which is kind of this like striptease band, girl band, said, oh well, the girls are totally third-wave feminist. This is what third-wave feminism is about. Like you don't get to use that word. You don't get to say that something is feminist as a way to sell back sexism to women, as a way to further consumerist ideas.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Ideas, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot."

  Anne Sweeney

  Kids, Saving, Down And

  Source: www.elle.com

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• One day I went to the manager and I asked him whether his model was working and he said, "Well, haven't you seen how many customers we have in this store?" And yes indeed I had. I mean it was definitely attracting a lot of customers, even attracting tourist buses that would land up at this store and people would go through the store and marvel at all the options, even sometimes take photographs of the various aisles.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Land, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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