Quotes About Agency

When you added dialogue to your piece, I really understood how Amy [the character] felt." This is not so much praise as a causal statement—you did this [added dialogue], with this consequence [I understood how the character felt]. Causal process statements are at the heart of building agency.

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

Isn't it true, Mr. Tagomi said, that no man should be the instrument for another's needs? He leaned forward urgently. Please give me your neutral Scandinavian opinion.

What work do I have to do then? said Will, but went on at once, No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. And I ain't sure I like that any more than a war I'm enlisted in without knowing about it. Where's my free will, if you please?

Free will makes us the authors of our own choices, our own sins, our own fates—not other people, not classes or races or genders.

It's up to you, not fate.

she'd known that being a victim was often a choice people made.

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.

I don't want Droga5 to be the biggest agency; I want it to be the best.

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.

I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.

Pictures are packaged and cast by agents.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

To say that all men need the gods therefore is to say, in part at least, that we are the kinds of beings who are at our best when we find ourselves acting in ways that we cannot - and ought not - entirely take credit for.

Who can be 'agents unto themselves' if they are in bondage to others and have to accept their terms?

The only thing you have 100% control over is you.

The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you.

In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing

Agency is a comforting fairy story. Life is a series of doors that only open one way. We can never return. This is the world and we must live in it the best we can.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.