Quotes by Spy This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion Jean Baudrillard spy distance use The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen. Jean Genet spy lenses men Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy. Jehane Noujaim spy filmmaker kind I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it. Jeremy Northam moscow spy realizing A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find. John Hurt spy real soldier A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. John le Carre spy population literature For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed. John le Carre spy couches world It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? John le Carre spy Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. John le Carre spy average people 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 Carre spy political years Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided. John le Carre spy habit matter I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things. John le Carre spy cat compassion The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started. John le Carre spy opposites believe It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case. John le Carre spy democracy political I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck. John le Carre desperate spy writing I spy with my little eye a great story. John Green spy eye stories From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. John Updike spy infancy-is secret I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory." Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?" No sir!" Then wonderful, welcome back! Johnny Depp cad spy cat Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president. Jonah Goldberg spy guilt president Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all. Julia Quinn spy jam hurt «12345678910»
