Agents Quotes - Page 19

• Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

  Melissa Marr

  Four, Down And, Months

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• I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

  Bill Maher

  Curves, Tsa, Way

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• Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Ideas, Judging

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• Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Moral, Responsible

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.30, InterVarsity Press

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• Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

  Bob Hope

  Lying, Typical, Stealing

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• I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

  Mickey Rooney

  Fun, Reading, Together

  "EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rooney Reflects on Night at the Museum!". Interview With Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. April 25, 2007.

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• In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

  David Lee Roth

  Cameras, Lenses, Behind The Scenes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

  Stephen Fry

  Needs, Done, Packaging

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Girl, Thinking, Four

  "Sherilyn Fenn talks David Lynch and how Twin Peaks should have ended". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Thinking, Dancing

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

  John Waters

  Writing, House, Might

  "He Really Can't Help Himself : Shockingly Eccentric Writer-director John Waters Offers Yet Another Look at the Gruesome With His New Film, 'serial Mom.' It Stacks Up Nicely Against His Cult Faves 'pink Flamingos' and 'mondo Trasho'". Interview with James Grant, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 1994.

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• Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

  Alan Kay

  Writing, Intelligent, Doe

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• Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

  Charles Duhigg

  Risk, Experts, Century

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• It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

  David Horowitz

  America, Police, Allies

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• If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, Ideas, Knowing

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• In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

  David Connolly

  Prayer, Angel, Expression

  David Connolly (1993). “In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey”, Perigee

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• I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming.

  Susan Ford

  Growing Up, Kids, Giving

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• People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• ...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

  Al Gore

  Evolution, Bursting, Capability

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• Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

  David Stern

  Smart, Management, Wonderful

  "NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Live webchat: Jasper Fforde" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

  Jasper Fforde

  Writing, Want, Publishers

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• I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

  Martin McDonagh

  Want, Given, Offers

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• I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.

  Lauren Willig

  Falling In Love, Angel, Organization

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.258, Allison & Busby

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• I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.

  Robert L. Millet

  Spiritual, Jesus, Believe

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