Kate Adie Quotes

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• I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
• I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care…
• It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio…
• Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up…
• On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone…
• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one.…
• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to…
• Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.
• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
• I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
• Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
• I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
• I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher,…
• I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
• 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 it…
• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

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