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You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.
When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."
Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.
In the 1960s, after the Cuban Revolution, CIA and FBI agents often coordinated their activities with anti-Castro Cuban exiles.
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!
I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
The truth will finally come out and the truth is: If LSD is used in the right way, it is a very important and very useful agent.
Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.
Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
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.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.
I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.
The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent.
If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'
You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.
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.
Whatever we can't develop internally - and nobody develops everything internally - you have to be able to trade and sign free agents.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of 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.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
I'm blessed and fortunate I met many people, like agents, who'd take a meeting with me because my mum or dad would ask if they'd see me.
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.
Dry skin is unhappy, damage-prone skin, so apply a product to protect it from summertime drying agents like sunburns, salt and chlorine.
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.