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Kate Adie Quotes
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 Quotes
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. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. - Kate Adie Quotes
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 the BBC complaining about my appearance. - Kate Adie Quotes
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. - Kate Adie Quotes
I dont sit there and speculate. Im not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually. - Kate Adie Quotes
I dont want to be involved in endless media gossip. - Kate Adie Quotes
I have never been attracted to any kind of violence. - Kate Adie Quotes
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. Im the reporter. - Kate Adie Quotes
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 a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. - Kate Adie Quotes
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama. - Kate Adie Quotes
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, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. - Kate Adie Quotes
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. - Kate Adie Quotes
I will never retire. - Kate Adie Quotes
I worked in Bosnia, where 77 journalists were killed and 400 wounded, and at the BBC we have just lost a news producer in Africa. - Kate Adie Quotes
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. - Kate Adie Quotes
Ive never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Lifes too short. - Kate Adie Quotes
If Im in danger then its usually my fault and its up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way! - Kate Adie Quotes
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles. - Kate Adie Quotes
It wasnt glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didnt merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought. - Kate Adie Quotes
Its totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. - Kate Adie Quotes
My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out whats really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as. - Kate Adie Quotes
No two wars are identical. - Kate Adie Quotes
Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. - Kate Adie Quotes
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 ahead, believing in the right to information. - Kate Adie Quotes
Only the Brits do this; as for the military from the rest of Europe and NATO - you could die in front of them and they would take no notice. - Kate Adie Quotes
People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, theres only me and the cameraman. - Kate Adie Quotes
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. - Kate Adie Quotes
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. - Kate Adie Quotes
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 wouldnt be any press without the censorship. - Kate Adie Quotes
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