#agents

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#always #certain #conversations #each #happens

Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#anymore #business #even #know #say

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#asking #dollars #millions #millions of dollars #sell

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#because #big #down #i #lost

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful

States are not moral agents. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#moral #states

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#masters #officeholders #people #their