Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Shaun McGinn

We've signed some key free agents that are really going to help out at Double and Triple-A, especially Double-A.

Clifford Stoll

The problem with intelligent agents and filters is that they can never do anything more than a crude approximation of my desires and wants.

Sarah Steele

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.

Trevor St. John

I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but my agents talked me into it and said it's nice, steady work.

Troian Bellisario

I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.

David Morse

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

John McNaughton

We set out to make a movie that let people think for themselves. Hollywood spends a lot of time and money trying to prevent that, but that's not the way I like to tell a story.

Ricky Gervais

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

Jamie Lee Curtis

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

Lash Fary

The perceived value of your product or service increases by associating it with top celebrities and a glitzy Hollywood event.

Bruce Campbell

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

Billy Wilder

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Ariel Pink

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

Delta Burke

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

Dana Carvey

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.