Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1979 Quotes

#1. Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

Edward St. Aubyn

#2. You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

Nicole Kidman

#3. Forget the pain and the one who caused it, but not the lesson you learnt.

Vikrmn

#4. A real program of social and economic reform [in Vietnam] would have involved a real conflict ... between the peasants ... and the landlords and the city people ... [it] was difficult ... because it required a concern for the peasants ... it was those capacities ... its American supporters lacked.

Frances FitzGerald

#5. They found Mr. Jesse in a boat?" I asked. "I'm wondering if maybe he just up and died. Maybe there ain't no murder. Like the fish weren't biting and he died of boredom. It happens. Boredom kills. I've had close brushes myself, during math.

Sheila Turnage

#6. Massachusetts's poor laws required that boys be taught to write and girls to read.7

Jill Lepore

#7. For us, destiny always feels ... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

Danny Boyle

#8. I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

Damien Hirst

#9. My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities.

Jenna Lee