Agents Quotes

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.

A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

If [Donald] Trump succeeds, then Trump will be the change agent.

Make no mistake, the Republican establishment has been relying on the media to be a premier agent in destroying Trump. And they can't. Ergo, there's panic.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

We've all had that moment where the agent thought he hit hold. You hear it's like Hamburger Hill in the background.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

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."

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

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

The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding.

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that

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

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.

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

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.

Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.

And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ..."It's so surprising to me.

In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.