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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
I'm a spy. It's not really... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.
There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.
For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.
I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.
It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.
You know what? For myself, I kind of like the spy because it takes another guy out of coverage or another guy out of rushing.
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.
For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.
The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.
What was good about 'Moonraker' was that we had Jaws back, because after 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' he became a well-loved villain.
When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.
A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.
I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.
A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
Our intelligence agencies have vast powers, and Obama used them illegally to spy on political opponents. This can't be allowed to stand.
The Bond situations to me are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy, and yet everybody knows he's a spy.
When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies would be, like, a good hobby or something.
In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.
Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.