The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.
An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.
I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.
A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.
It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.
We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
