"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."
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"I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . ."
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"Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in."
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"Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light."
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"I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing."
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"I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes."
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"She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'"
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"I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels."
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"Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering."
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"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."
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"I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre."
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"Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity."
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"Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers."
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"Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time."
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"My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids.”"
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"How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?"
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"Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes."
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"The life of spies is to know, not bee known."
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"I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time."
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"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."
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