Speech-skipping

Often in Perfect Dark, certain portions of scripted speech must be sat through in order to complete a given mission, and the game timer keeps running throughout this. However, some speeches can be skipped by hitting Start to pause the game at the instant the speech begins. The speech goes on while the game and the timer are paused - then you can rejoin the game, having saved several seconds.

Not all speech can be skipped in this manner, however; and not all speech NEEDS skipping.