Not exact matches
But I can't figure out why the evil government
agents who abduct a clean - cut young software engineer
named Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) and melt his
face early in the film also implant a creepy, crawly cyborg - scorpion in his tummy.
But Susan's anonymity and lack of field experience make her invaluable after Fine is assassinated by a haughty arms dealer
named Raina (Rose Byrne), who knows the
names and
faces of all the CIA's major
agents.
Determined to clear their
names, the band of men runs from federal
agent Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel)-- the one woman in the film who provides a minor love interest for
Face — while seeking help from CIA
Agent Lynch (Patrick Wilson).
I haven't given up trying to find an
agent to represent my novel to a big
name publisher (I have queries and partials out) but when I allow myself to read
agent statistics, I tend to question whether I ought to
face those facts with my head rather than my heart.
And then I remembered, I had an
agent, a great
agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your
name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my
face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.
Bill asks his
agent to give him a Term life insurance quote for a $ 200,000
Face Amount with an A + rated company
named Banner Life.
For example, For Sale signs typically feature the
face of the
agent, the company
name, and a phone number.
We all know those
agents who remain cool, calm and collected in the
face of anything — challenging clients, setbacks in a transaction, you
name it.