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  • "Nothing personal..."
  • The Circus personel cheerily singing along to the Soviet National Anthem at their Christmas Party, complete with a Lenin-mask-wearing Father Christmas.
    • And also at the party: "It will take five hours to get drunk off this monkey-piss."
    • The one before that's even better: "You Calvinistic, penny-pinching Scot! Can ye no' learn to take a bloody order? Nobody tampers with the recipe!"
  • "I don't know about you, George, but I'm feeling seriously underfucked..."
  • It's amusing to find three actors who had played James Bond villains cast in the Smiley's People miniseries. John le CarrĂ©'s books and George Smiley are frequently labeled as the "anti-Ian Fleming" and "anti-James Bond" respectively.

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