Agent Quotes

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

Him, Wanted, Start

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.
Nick Offerman

Time, End, Working

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
Victor Cruz

School, Small, Free

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.
LeRoy Neiman

Work, Try, Style

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
John Barton

Poetry, Makes, Exciting

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
Stephenie Meyer

Experience, Book, Another

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
William Ames

Makes, Action, Creation

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
Toby Jones

Time, Food, Down

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

Book, She, Until

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
Sara Paretsky

Best, Book, America

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.
Rick Baker

Funny, Successful, Done

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
Joe Pantoliano

Off, Read, Fired

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
William H. Macy

Job, Said, Wanna

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Louise Slaughter

Wife, May, Words

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

Life, Time, Waiting

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

Work, Book, Acting

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

Together, Through, Put

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
Charisma Carpenter

Teacher, Dad, Heart

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.
Archie Panjabi

Remember, Few, Actor

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.
Archie Panjabi

Food, Mother, Father

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
Bob Barr

Government, Give, American

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
Victoria Principal

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
Victoria Principal

Great, Sense, Gave

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

Head, Biological, Iraqi

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.
Scott Ritter

Wife, Made, Her

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
Kate Atkinson

Mind, Writing, Become

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey

Together, Play, Put

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
Allison Janney

Play, Said, Able

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
Radha Mitchell

Someone, Mean, Else

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey

Small, Able, Risk

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