"I was timid and frightened as a child.……" — Kate Adie
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
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32 Quotes by Kate Adie
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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…
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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…
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we…
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less…
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil…
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Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a…
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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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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got…
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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