#agents

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#also #day #deal #emperors #everywhere

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. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#because #become #control #difficult #healthy

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#any #auditions #before #big #big movie

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#build #free #free agents #off #pennants

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#people #power #same #supreme #supreme power

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#because #double #fat #feel #girl

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#alone #athlete #center #coaches #doctors

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#attorneys #deals #hate #i #meeting

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. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#agents #deal #fame #i #lawyers

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. ↗

— Jane Harman

#cia #dialects #fbi #fbi agents #intimidated