The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of pe...
The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exp...
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analys...
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.
Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.
When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.
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.
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.
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.
