#agent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #agent




There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency.


Louis Menand


#decisions #fate #history #individuals #predestination

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.


Walter Bagehot


#also #ambassador #simply #spectacle

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.


Guy Laliberte


#agents #believe #better #better world #care

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.


Hedy Lamarr


#agent #crude #director #each #hollywood

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.


Tim Berners-Lee


#agents #around #before #beings #browse

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.


Sugar Ray Leonard


#allowed #any #exclusive #fight #free

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.


Mike Lookinland


#child #child actors #different #everyone #functions

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.


Peter Malkin


#even #jewish #lie #mother #secret

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'


Kate Mara


#christian #figure #film #going #how

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.


Laura Carmichael


#along #come #girl #going #hopeless