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• We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

  Ali Khamenei

  Believe, People, Philippines

  "Iran: U.S., Israel Behind Iraq Beheadings". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2004.

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• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

  Felicity Kendal

  People, Negative, Said

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• I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

  Jane Lynch

  Real, Fans, Lasts

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• Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.

  John Lescroart

  New York, Real, Moving

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• I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Dog, Years, Soldier

  "Kevin McKidd Talks About 'Bunraku'". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.kevinmckiddonline.com.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  World, Destruction, Landmines

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• I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Book, Thinking, Ozarks

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• All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

  Tom Clancy

  New York, Cowboy, Fields

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• My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Mother, Stars, Regret

  "Bruce Forsyth: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Religious, Men, Order

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.122, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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