Agents Quotes

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.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.

A player has no use for an agent. None.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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.

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

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.

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in.

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

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

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

I'm absolutely loving being part of Bondiana, and that not only am I a Bond girl, but I get to be an agent as well.

Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house.

One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.