#agents

No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#because #chorus #chose #dancer #dancing

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#always #argue #day #detest #die

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up. ↗

— Brody Armstrong

#andy #bands #both #broke #him

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

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

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

— Grover Cleveland

#masters #officeholders #people #their

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

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