Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jami Attenberg

I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

Tiki Barber

He won't have to think about it or hear from his agent what the organization is thinking. He can stay focused on football - not that Jeremy hasn't been focused.

He has always been a commercial real estate agent, and back in the old days when you could be a real estate agent and an insurance man both, he did that too.

He is not a player I like to compete with on the free agent market because he is so special. This is a deal that needed to be done. I don't think it could have waited. It's good for all the parties involved.

Having customers get caught up in a tangle of commands and layers and never getting to an agent has been a constant source of frustration for years. But don't shoot the technology.

Fran McCaffery

He looks focused. He knows the importance of this. He's got agents coming up to him. He looks under the basket and sees Larry Bird. He recognizes this in terms of its importance to his future in basketball.

I didn't want to be the agent responsible for people to lose their faith. I didn't want that burden on my shoulders. But I am no longer interested in protecting them.

Shoshannah Stern

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.

I don't know why he would be surprised. He said, 'I'm really looking forward to other opportunities.' So I'm surprised that he was surprised, because there was an awful lot of finality coming to me from the discussions between John's agent and the station.

Jessie Mueller

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

Jim Irsay

If both of their agents are reasonable and they're ready to do business, we certainly will entertain something in the coming months, even weeks.

Melora Hardin

I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are very involved with my kids. I also have an incredible creative team with my manager, agent and publicist.

Summer Phoenix

I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

Debbie Ford

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

For years we've been talking about providing a single view of the customer and trying to consolidate all the different departments and initiatives in the contact center. But the agent still has to Alt-Tab between different applications and swivel-chair between different desktops. It's out of control.

Robert Mueller

Four thousand agents are still assigned to portions of the investigation, are still following leads to determine whether or not there are any associates, financial supporters or others who are still in the United States.

David Morse

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Herman Edwards

We were approached by his agent at the Senior Bowl. We visited - a very short visit. We haven't heard from his agent at this point in time. I haven't heard from Terrell.

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

We've all discussed the facility needs by the county. There may be a need to lease facilities in the interim, before we build. We're asking for the purchasing agent to be given the authority to negotiate a lease agreement.

Max Weber

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me.

Erika Christensen

I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.

Meg Rosoff

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

Jerry Angelo

We've always had good working relationship when I was in Tampa and since we've been here I find him to be a very, very good agent and (have) no problems with him at all.

Kathleen Quinlan

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

Katie Lowes

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster.

What we're planning is how to get the Buccaneers ready for the midnight Sunday night deadline so that we're ready to call free agents (on Monday).

Ray Anderson

What has been very gratifying is that all my clients and colleagues in the agent ranks have taken a very supportive view. We're all human, and you think, 'I wonder what my buddies on the union side are going to think? Are they going to think I've changed my stripes and now I'm management?'

Casey Affleck

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

We've walked into victim sites where the victim technical support and consultants have asked FBI agents what to do technically. But, of course, we're not allowed to help in that way.