Agents Quotes - Page 8

• The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.

  Douglas Wilson

  Dark, Thinking, Tsa

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• The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Fire, Transformation

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

  Alan Hirsch

  Life, God, Christian

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• President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent.

  Jon Stewart

  Approval Rating, President, Riding

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• My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

  Jerry Rice

  Stars, Giving, Dancing

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• I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me.

  Tricia Helfer

  Believe, Believe In Me, Managers

  "Tricia Helfer Gives Us the Lowdown on Burn Notice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 27, 2009.

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• I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that's when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. I finally got it on - I'm not losing it!'

  Tricia Helfer

  Thinking, Weight, Pounds

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• If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

  Mickey Rooney

  Funny, Ungrateful, Complaining

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• Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Lawyer, Said

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• It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Moon, Planets

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• Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Politics, Refined

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• I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Book, Writing

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• My agent says that I'm a "repeat business guy." If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

  Dean Cain

  Attitude, Team, Player

  "Dean Cain on his prolific TV movie career, including tonight's 'A Mile in His Shoes'". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, ew.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Ambassadors, Politics, Different

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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• I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

  John Sayles

  Book, Acting, Scales

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• Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Country, Creating Life, Birth

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• I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

  Millard Drexler

  Long, People, Want

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• Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

  Harry Mathews

  Running, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

  Dylan McDermott

  Careers, Waiting, Actors

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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• Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  A.C. Grayling

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Roles, Speak

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• My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.

  Casey Kasem

  Country, People, Three

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• I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

  Whitney Cummings

  Fate, Men, Should Have

  "Can Whitney Cummings Get Some Respect?" by Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.vulture.com. November 18, 2012.

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• If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Two, Sick, Pounds

  WWD Interview, wwd.com. March 15, 2010.

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