Agents Quotes - Page 28

• We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, "you're crazy, why would you pass on this," because it wasn't something that I personally wanted to be a part of.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Crazy, Choices, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Choices, Upset, Want

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• I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Actors, Miserable

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right... Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Rights, Government

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.204, Penguin

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• I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

  Amanda Righetti

  Jobs, People, Laughing

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• If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap

  Dean Koontz

  Fall, Writing, Yelling

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• I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

  Daniela Ruah

  Real, Female, Mets

  "Daniela Ruah Exclusive Interview NCIS: LOS ANGELES; Plus an Update on George Lucas’ RED TAILS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 02, 2010.

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• In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.

  Christine Ebersole

  Phones, Acting, Roles

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

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• My first motion capture game was with Sony - NBA: The Life. It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

  Nolan North

  Basketball, Sports, Real

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• As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

  James Frain

  Auditions, Tvs, Projects

  "James Frain Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Struggle, Past, Orange

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• The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Ink, World, Enlightening

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• Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

  William C. Bryant

  Mean, Self, Unhappy

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• My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

  Fred Allen

  Headache, Percent

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Country, Jobs, Stupid

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• I don't think I am very easy to work for because everything has to be just right or we don't put it out. But at the same time, all the people that work for me have a "no asshole" rule, if you're a jerk you're fired, so it's a great team and a lot of skillful people at the top of the game, anybody from management to the agents to the publicists to the day-to-day website stuff and it's just a great team.

  Jeff Dunham

  Team, Thinking, Games

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

  Adam Clarke

  Real, Ignorance, Men

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• Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Benefits, Indifference, Pity

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• An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Instinct

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• Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Brain, Firsts, Clients

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

  Laura Miller

  Writing, Editors, Sometimes

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• In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

  Peter Dicken

  Technology, Enabling, Outcomes

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.85, SAGE

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• The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

  John Henry Holland

  Action, Given, Performances

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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