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To possess another language is...

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Luck's just another word for d...

Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

When you're my age, you have t...

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

You can't make war against ter...

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

A good writer can watch a cat ...

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

It's a principle of mine to co...

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Without a pen in my hand I can...

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Completing a book, it's a litt...

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I've never been able to write ...

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The good pupils are often bril...

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Tyranny is like the electric w...

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Blackmail is more effective th...

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I mean, you can't be less ruth...

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Never trade a secret, you'll a...

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I was the British spy who had ...

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 239 quotes

I've got more than one string ...

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The religious cant that will s...

The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

On one hand we go like hell fo...

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

When it's going well [writing]...

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The Spy Who Came in from the C...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....