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I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.
Keri Russell
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John le Carré
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.
Mark Haddon
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
Agnes Smedley
I'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.
Tom Clancy
If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.
Edward Snowden
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.[32].
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
That's arguably what spy agencies do - high-tech investigative journalism. It's time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.
Julian Assange
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
Alison Bechdel
Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly; "'T is the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.
Mary Howitt
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
Diogenes of Sinope
On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air.
William Shakespeare
It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.
Helen Fielding
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.
Charles Cumming
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
Ben Macintyre
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
Jon Ronson
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
Ian Rankin
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.
Rowan Atkinson
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
Charles Bass
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.
Chris Diamantopoulos
However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.
Christine Keeler
The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
Cliff Stearns
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