Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.
I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
. . . the agent provocateur of a good dinner.
It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published. " I totally disagree with that.
I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.
If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love
I don't think I am very easy to work for because everything has to be just right or we don't put it out. But at the same time, all the people that work for me have a "no asshole" rule, if you're a jerk you're fired, so it's a great team and a lot of skillful people at the top of the game, anybody from management to the agents to the publicists to the day-to-day website stuff and it's just a great team.
The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.
No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.