The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.
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.
I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.
One of my agents once said I was one of the most dangerous men in London, and I was so excited by that. For a few days, I walked around Soho snarling.
My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.
It’s all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.
The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000 in ransom money in November 1971. But the truth is, the mystery man wearing dark sunglasses almost certainly died during the jump, according to the FBI agents on the case at the time.
No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, ‘Oh! What a Lovely War,’ and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn’t sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.
The vast majority of Secret Service agents are incredibly competent people.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
You don’t want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there’s so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn’t something that most writers can’t strive for or identify. It’s something even the best agents and editors can’t always identify.
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They’re not used to the kid pimping.
We who don’t want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.
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.
I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I’ll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it’s a form of expression that all I need is me. I don’t need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.
There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don’t do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It’s a compromise as a coach.
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand why some players have certain agents.
I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you’ll find.
You know, I’m not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood – particularly agents and managers – they’re all in a hurry.
It’s not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies. You have to deal with their agents and it’s become extremely tough being a manager these days.
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
I didn’t have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.
Stath Lets Flats’ at its heart is a character comedy show about a family-run estate agents, but it’s inspired by a real family!
Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, ‘I’m in lockdown now.’ I won’t talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that’s generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.
Dark matches are usually off-camera. Sometimes you don’t even wrestle in front of the crowd, you wrestle in front of the agents – but my first match with WCW was on a pay-per-view.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
I just want to bend fire. You know, it’d be cool to throw some fire to a couple of old agents, the ex wife.
Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
I think that the NFL Players Association has to put more restrictions on the agents like the NCAA has put restrictions on us.
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
I remember asking one of my agents, like, ‘Hey, is this Instagram thing good for models, or is it bad?’ And they said, ‘No. Keep doing it. Heidi Klum, or whoever, has millions of followers, and that doesn’t hurt them.’ So, I kept with it. I think it definitely helped.
It’s easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids’ or the parents’ back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that’s accessible.
I would never vote to allow federal agents to spy on American citizens without warrants.
I came to New York in 1974, when I graduated from college. And you had to use ‘Backstage’ because all of the auditions were listed there. Most people didn’t come with agents, so you got to see a lot of what was auditioning and when and where. ‘Backstage’ made sure you knew the major places.
Nobody wanted the ‘Roseanne’ show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
Never work against what you are. I never have, and I’ve never minded being typecast. Some of my agents have been like: try and change, Victoria. Cut your hair off, colour it, have a breast reduction.You have to this and that, to get a serious acting role. But I would rather use what I am to my advantage.
I recommend people don’t get in high-profile marriages. There are a lot of people in the world. You don’t have to marry someone with their own team of publicists, managers, agents, and lawyers.
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.
The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That’s my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
You’re dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors’ agents.
When I first started auditioning, I was so, dare I say, desperate and hungry for a job that I pretty much went out for anything my agents sent me with a few exceptions.
I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.
Jumping genes are fundamental because they’re agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn – called Indian corn – that you buy in the fall.
