"I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision."
-Brendan Coyle
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"The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.“
-Brendan Coyle
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"When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'"
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"You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work."
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"I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy."
-Brendan Coyle
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"I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation."
-Brendan Coyle
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"My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef."
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"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
-E. Howard Hunt
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"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
-Aldrich Ames
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"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
-Aldrich Ames
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"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."
-Aldrich Ames
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"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
-Aldrich Ames
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