Felicity Jones

My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

English Actress

Charles Barkley

I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.

American Baseball Player

Felicity Kendal

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

Alan Rickman

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

British Actor

Pierce Brosnan

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.

Irish Actor

Sally Field

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.

American Actress

Ken Berry

It's hard to get someone, particularly agents, to tell you the truth.

Jane Hawking

I couldn't let him die; I was the agent of life for Stephen.

English Author

James L. Dolan

Free agents want to go to a winner and get paid.

American Businessman

Guy Fieri

Understand that an agent has authority from someone else to act on their behalf in specific situations.

Agent's Authority

An agent can represent someone without being physically present.

Not Always Physical

When 'agent' refers to a thing, it usually implies that it is the direct cause of an effect.

Causation

In science, 'agent' often describes substances with specific effects in reactions or processes.

Scientific Implications

Agents in entertainment or literature are specialists who help creatives find work and negotiate deals.

Career Facilitator

Agents do more than promote; they manage financial and contractual details.

Not Just Promoters

In a governmental or military context, an agent often works undercover or keeps their role secret.

Hidden Identity

Understand that 'agent' implies the spy's affiliation with an organization or country.

Espionage Context

'Agent' can be used metaphorically to describe someone driving change, not just physically doing things.

Metaphorical Usage

An 'agent' in this context usually has the power or influence to affect large-scale change.

Influence and Power

Agents facilitate business deals, acting as the middleman between two parties.

Business Intermediary

The word 'agent' can refer to various types of services, not just those related to property or travel.

Wide Range of Services

 Because we've made leadership about changing the world, and there is no world. There's only six billion understandings of it. And if you change one person's understanding of it, understanding of what they're capable of, understanding of how much people care about them, understanding of how powerful an agent for change they can be in this world,

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An inside look at...

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 sleep loss and your immune system. And here, I'll introduce these delightful blue elements in the image. They are called natural killer cells, and you can think of natural killer cells almost like the secret service agents of your immune system.

Sleep is your superpower...

 and source of all creation. Numbers were active agents in nature. Plato argued mathematical concepts were concrete and as real as the universe itself, regardless of our knowledge of them. Euclid, the father of geometry, believed nature itself

Is math discovered or...

 who looked at me up and down and said I don't look like I have any experience to be working in this business. And I said to him, "Listen, punk fool, you're a failed actor who became an agent, and you know why you failed as an actor?

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 And if I look at it as an intelligence, then it's something that you cultivate. What are the ingredients? Imagination, playfulness, novelty, curiosity, mystery. But the central agent is really that piece called the imagination.

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 which can lead to cell death unless the damage is repaired. Because cancer cells multiply rapidly, they take in a high concentration of alkylating agents, and their DNA is frequently exposed and rarely repaired.

How does chemotherapy...

 before their number was called, and I watched the gate agent treat this man like he had broken the law, like a criminal. He was yelled at for attempting to board one group too soon. So I said something.