#agent

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#because #essential #manuscripts #publishers #read

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

#agent #alter #aspects #cases #evidence

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#became #broker #by the time #estate #had

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished. ↗

— John Corbett

#auditioning #auditions #before #big #business

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#because #job #make #might #mine

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#hated #his #hitch #i #insisted

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#agent #because #card #dead #forget

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#association #authors #canon #ethics #factor

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#boston #free #free agent #great #had

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#alike #denzel #denzel washington #great #know