Quotes About Agency

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

In the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to be in the sports representation business. Being an ex-player, I knew that those were the people I wanted to work with.

When you get the right representation, there's an ease that comes to your mind that allows you to focus on other things.

CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.

I don't do husbands. I don't do children.

Let me clear, I do not support abolishing ICE.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Women's empowerment, whether through legal, financial, or cultural routes, will tend to increase their agency and their ability to take part in activism.

Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency pronounced: "We are not in the business of hunting war criminals.

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.

Rebels can do anything they want to do

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

Therefore, nothing happens in the world by chance. This having been established, it seems to follow that whatever is done in the world is done partly by divine agency and partly by our will.

Most of all, it teaches you that your body is not just a sort of jar made out of meat that you lug around because it's what you keep your brain in, but an equal and in fact quite opinionated and demonstrative partner in the joint production that is you.

Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.