When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we’re interested in them’.” — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
