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Kate Adie has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but…
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name…
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have…
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we…
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in…
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone…
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Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous…
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone…
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It's not Beirut or Bosnia.
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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
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I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
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Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of…
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I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation…
— John McCain
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Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the…
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When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse…
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion…
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