Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there.
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
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.
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.
