Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Hillenbrand

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

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Pat Ruel

It angers me. His agents told him he's going the first day of the draft. That's what they told him. They are pieces of garbage.

S. Walker

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

Nadine Velazquez

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

Henry Harteveldt

What Yahoo has and the travel agents don't have is user generated content. Travelers will change their behavior based on what they see from other consumers.

Don Maloney

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.

Sergei Ignatchenko

It is most important that we caught them having contact with agents and funding a number of non-profit organizations (NGOs). We are investigating the goals of this funding.

George H. W. Bush

Our border patrol and immigration agents are doing a fine job, but we still have a problem, ... Too many illegal immigrants are coming in, and we're capturing many more non-Mexican illegal immigrants than we can send home.

Nicholas Sparks

I fully understand the Catch-22 with getting an agent: Agents want someone who's published before, but how can a person get published without an agent? As hard as it is, it happens all the time. All successful writers were once in the same boat you are, but they found a way to do it.

Fred Willard

In this last movie, I gave it quite a lot of thought to my character, and I fell back on a lot of managers and agents that I've had, and my early New York days where comics would sit around a table doing jokes and the managers would have jokes, and so I based it on a lot of that.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Sam Simon

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Trevor Noah

I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.

Johnny Grant

his vigor and passion for Hollywood that's just so infectious and so important.

Scott Caan

Hollywood is sort of a small, little town, and doing things like that - like writing a play or selling a script - those are the little things people see.

Nikki Sixx

We are from Hollywood, you know that's where we started.

Alex Jones

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

Richard O'Brien

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

Vera Farmiga

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.