Agents Quotes - Page 10

• I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Blessed, Various, Managers

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• I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

  Zosia Mamet

  Kids, Mad, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

  Dean Norris

  Jobs, Couple, Acting

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.

  Connie Nielsen

  Gun, Fbi Agents, Portland

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  Navid Negahban

  Waiting, Actors, Who We Are

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• My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

  Tea Obreht

  Supportive, Faculty, Colleagues

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Brother, Government

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• W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Community, Secret

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• The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Taken, Men, Organization

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• I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Character, Thinking, Worry

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• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Dad, Thinking, Video

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• No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Teacher, School, Government

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• Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

  Tyler Posey

  Sound, Projects, Come Up

  "Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Exclusive Interview Teen Wolf (MTV’s Reboot Airing in 2011)". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.

  Busy Philipps

  Baby, Kids, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

  Jeremy Piven

  Reality, Sharks, Opposites

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• But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

  Michael Polanyi

  Exercise, Light, Incentives

  Michael Polanyi (1962). “The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962”

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• The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Names, America

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• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  Barbara Steele

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• I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

  Donna Summer

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Sarah Sutton

  School, Years, Ballet

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• I remember when I was younger. Dad's agent came round, and I asked if she would represent me. She didn't represent children at the time, but I wouldn't let her leave the house until she agreed. I've always been quite headstrong.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Children, Dad, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Editors, Letters, Foxes

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• I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.

  Thomas Howes

  Character, Thinking, People

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• The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Change Agent

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• The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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