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«The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.»
Author: Maria Lenhart
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Writers
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agent, estate, estate agent, profitable, real estate, real estate agent
«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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«Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough. On why she refused a deal with underwear firm Agent Provacateu.»
Author: Sophie Ellis-Bextor
(Actress, Singer)
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agent, get away, refused, underwear, well enough
«Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.»
Author: W. Earl Hall
| About:
Science
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agent, drummed, sunny, Sunny days, tranquilize, tranquilizing
«Television is a triumph of equipment over people and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Television
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agent, caraway, control it, control room, equipment, gnat, gnats, left over, navel, navels
«The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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agent, drove, free agent, Free agents, in case, mobility, nineteenth, nineteenth century, Pacific, privacy, restaurant, sandwich, secret agent, secret agents, the Pacific
«The girls have got a bit excited. I spoke to my agent and she says she's wading through the fan mail. We've got bags of it.»
«The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.»
«The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
agent, finite, Human perception, primary, prime, repetition
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