#spy

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#approached #british #frankly #i #intelligence

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 Foster Bass

#chinese #cox #designs #four #good

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ↗

— John le Carre

#experience #his #like #lives #mainstream

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #good story #harness #same #spying

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. ↗

— Julia Child

#help #i #never #number #office

It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care. ↗

— Victor Garber

#bottom #bottom line #care #happen #inextricably

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#architects #beautiful #been #beltway #boom

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#masters #novelists #novels #say #spy

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #business #business school #corporations #i

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#also #been #called #calling #documentary