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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
#I Am
#Judges
#Just
#Orange
#Prize
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
#Ahead
#Information
#IRA
#Media
#Question
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
- Kate Adie
#Life Is Too Short
#Life
#Nostalgia
#Time
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 Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
- Kate Adie
#Day
#Famous
#Glamorous
#Life
#Radio
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
#Marriage
#Nice
#School
#Teacher
#Time
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
#Being
#Live
#Make
#Progress
#School
I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
- Kate Adie
#Any
#Attracted
#Kind
#Never
#Violence
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
- Kate Adie
#Enemy
#Kinds
#Propaganda
#Setbacks
#War
No two wars are identical.
- Kate Adie
#Identical
#Two
#Wars
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
- Kate Adie
#Find
#Reporting
#Woman
#Women
#World
My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
- Kate Adie
#Fast
#Find
#Heart
#People
#Possible
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 just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
- Kate Adie
#Fault
#I Am
#Me
#Myself
#Way
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
#Appearance
#Hair
#Height
#Remember
#War
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
- Kate Adie
#Endless
#Gossip
#Involved
#Media
#Want
I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
- Kate Adie
#Go
#Job
#Just
#Never
#War
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 surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
- Kate Adie
#Danger
#Protection
#Surrounded
#Turn
#Up
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
- Kate Adie
#Difficult
#Natural Disasters
#Risks
#War
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
- Kate Adie
#Democracy
#Good
#Information
#Silence
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
#News
#Own
#People
#Stand
#Talk
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
#Calm
#Care
#Freedom
#Journalism
#Myself
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