#agent

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #experience

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. ↗

— David Bowie

#awe #behind #believe #bereft #buddhist

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. ↗

— George Combe

#always #back #bar #bold #cases

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents. ↗

— John Culberson

#border #border patrol #completely #enough #outnumbered

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. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#agent #been #drive #fortunately #going

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#agent #comes #even #every #every time

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. ↗

— Domhnall Gleeson

#asked #dad #get #give #gonna

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#because #big #came #career #date

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You ↗

— Brooke Bida

#ann-anarchsit #changeagents #libertarian-ann #love #new-age

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#i #keep #secret #secret agent #sneaky