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Because I was crazy and because my parents wanted me out of their hair, they put me in an all-day acting class... so they wouldn't have to deal with me, probably. And it just so happened there agents auditing the class, and I ended up getting signed.

I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

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!'

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

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.

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

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

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

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.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

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

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

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

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

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.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

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.

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

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

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, 'I don't think you're the type they're looking for.' I was always like, 'You think? I don't want you to think. I want them to think that.' This business is all about someone's opinion, but not the agent or the manager's. How do they know? They're not that person.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

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

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

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

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

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.

In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

More homebuyers find their agent on the Internet than all traditional marketing channels combined. We feel it's our job to help connect our agents and brokers with the online consumer. We understand agents and brokers are constantly looking for new ways to drive traffic to their sites. With these partnerships we are adding more ways to funnel prospects directly to our clients.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

My task is to respond to the two hours of uninterrupted testimony from the independent counsel, as well as to his four-year, $45 million investigation, which has included at least 28 attorneys, 78 FBI agents and an undisclosed number of private investigators ... And I have 30 minutes to do this. It's a daunting exercise, but let me begin with the simple but powerful truth that nothing in this overkill of an investigation amounts to a justification for the impeachment of the president of the United States.

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.