I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.
For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.
I don’t think we’re out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We’re not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
And that movie was underrated – Nuts – because it deals with a terrible subject, but It’s very well done.
You lay the groundwork, stay on the grind, and then eventually you get those big huge national deals with TV stations that are seen worldwide.
Iraq deals with the United States regardless of who is in the White House.
One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on ‘Dog With a Blog’ is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
That’s what I love about my faith and Christianity. It’s the polar opposite of darn near everything I experienced in the wrestling business. I still love the business, and I’m thankful for everything that it’s provided, but the idea that it deals in the truth is the furthest thing from reality.
In offering deals on immigration, infrastructure, and prison reform, President Trump has demonstrated that he is ready for compromise. But will Democrats take up his offer?
From opposing unfair trade deals to fighting for a fair financial system, Hillary Clinton has shown she puts working families first. She knows as president that her first job will be creating jobs for the middle class. I am proud to endorse her today because I know she will keep Ohio moving forward.
We’ve had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I’m honestly just pinching myself.
‘The Killing’ has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it’s very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it’s still exciting. It’s about real people and it doesn’t shy from the painful points of life.
True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.
It’s more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.
People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother’s basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I’ve gotten work is because I’ve somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I’ve been asked to auditions.
I’ve probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.
While I was working for the WWE in 2013 and 2014, TV deals had come to me, movie deals had come to me, sponsorship deals had come to me, and they were all turned down by WWE because they would involve me being taken away from their shows.
It’s a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you’re ready to make the film.
The Tories’ favoured trade deals post-Brexit are likely to make regional inequality worse, by focusing on the best deal for the City of London at the expense of smaller firms across the country.
Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.
Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads – choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
For me, seed investing isn’t just a good return area but a big part of how we network in Silicon Valley. A lot of our best deals have come from being active in the seed stage.
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.
America is immature as a nation, and part of the reason why ‘Hung’ is a hit show is because it deals with that immature side of the male brain where we are kind of comparing ourselves to the rest of the world.
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band’s income – I don’t want too see too much taken off the top line.
After ‘Bake Off,’ I got these book deals that were very much baking books. But the books I’m producing now like ‘Perfect Plates in Five Ingredients’ and ‘Comfort,’ they’re really a truer representation of who I am as a food writer and a food industry professional.
Hartsfield Jackson plays a fundamental role in recruiting and retaining jobs. It should be known as an economic driver – not a venue for shady deals.
I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.
I’ve not had it easy in the past – there have been developmental record deals fall through, and I had a lot of really different scenarios and really had to understand what it means to be a business person and to find your identity as an artist.
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
In the first test screening of ‘RoboCop,’ it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, ‘I liked it because it was political.’ And the second answer was because, ‘It feels like it deals with current affairs.’ And the third answer was, ‘Because it feels emotional.’
It’s the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who’s always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.
Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.
Like so many free trade deals before and since, Nafta was sold as a massive opportunity for working people and their prospects. Forecasts spoke of hundreds of thousands of new jobs in all three countries. The reality could not have been more different.
So much of a professional athlete’s success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with… always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
If I had intended for ‘Minecraft’ to end up on consoles, I wouldn’t have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.
As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to – perfect training to be a politician, you know?
Def Jam just made deals with me. They wouldn’t let me go because they didn’t really have that much street cred. So they kept me around.
Without law, without the social stability it provides, there can’t be contracts and deals, there can’t be chamber meetings, there can’t be good jobs and safe families.
Really, we don’t look at deals as ‘big’ or ‘small’: we look at things that will solve a problem for us.
Reps once took chances on art, History’s most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.
Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they’re old and grizzled. I’m no stranger to that dynamic.
President Trump promised to negotiate trade agreements to get better deals for America and protect American jobs. Bottom line: He delivered.
We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.
Donald Trump has no idea what a deal is. I mean, he’s a man who has filed for bankruptcy many times, so he doesn’t understand how to make any deals.
When you sign a contract, that’s your deal. Everyone has different deals anyway.
