Quotes by Kate Adie - Page 1

I will never retire.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Will Never
Retire
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No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie / Journalist
War
Identical
Two
Wars
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Gossip
Involved
Literature
Media
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Kind
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Violence
Attracted
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Childhood
Drama
Literature
Complete
Sailed
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Reporters
Selection
Stories
Reporter
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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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Life
Heart
Literature
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Children
Nine
People
Seconds
People Children Young
Carry
Children People Young
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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Speculate
Wastes
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Book
Periods
Writing
Specifically
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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
Kate Adie / Journalist
War
Concealment
Enemy
Kind
Propaganda
Setbacks
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Democracy
Information
Secrecy
Silence
Works
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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.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Literature
Nastiness
Years
Years Ago
Flak
Jacket
Wore
Worse
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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 / Journalist
Judging
Modern Novel
Orange
Prize
Judges
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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 / Journalist
Jobs
War
Happened
Zone
Desired
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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.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Blessing
People
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There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Jobs
Equal
Equal Pay
Law
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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 stuff.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Adventurous
Children
Frightened
Literature
Mountain
Timid
Yours
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War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
Kate Adie / Journalist
War
Natural
Risk
Zone
Cover
Disasters
Natural Disasters
Protests
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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 / Journalist
Danger
Faults
Literature
Way
Myself I Am Me
Adrenalin
Myself Me I Am
Rush
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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 to make.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Coverage
Illustration
Progress
School
Authorities
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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 / Journalist
Crew
News
Packages
Stand
Camera
Deliver
Happening
Hour
Reported
Twenty-Four
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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 / Journalist
Bosnia
Last Year
Miles
Sierra
Sierra Leone
Vehicle
Drove
Hanging
Helicopter
Thousands
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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.
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Jobs
Heart
People
Fast
Verified
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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 wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
Kate Adie / Journalist
War
Appearance
Beirut
Civil War
Complaining
Hair
Height
Bbc
Civil
Reporting
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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, there's only me and the cameraman.
Kate Adie / Journalist
War
Cameraman
People
Team
Zone
War Always Me
Assume
Costume
Driver
War Zone
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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 / Journalist
Girl
Marriage
Teacher
Church
England
Missionary
Nice
Nurse
School
University
After
Woman
Prior
Sent
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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 / Journalist
Endless
Life Is Too Short
Nostalgia
Sitting
Used
Life Time Life Is Too Short
Miss
Oh
Else
Short
Gosh
No Time
Point
Saying
Something Else
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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 / Journalist
Funny
Life Is Short
Life Is Too Short
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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 have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Government
Believe
British
Contact
Information
Instance
Ira
Ireland
Media
Members
Northern Ireland
Ahead
Believing
Governments
Northern
Prohibit
Question
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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 I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Freedom
Calm
Calm Down
Care
Excited
Expression
Fairness
Freedom Of Speech
Interest
Journalism
Liberty
Speech
Things
Lot
Get
Myself
Less
Take
Down
Still
Telling
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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 / Journalist
Advantage
Might
Women World Woman
Basic
Cancelled
Disadvantage
Round
Reporting
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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 in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Famous
Being Famous
Glamorous
Literature
Merit
Names
People
Radio
Regions
Reporters
Life Day People
Interested
Gave
Low
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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Contemplation
Danger
Unexpected
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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 wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
Kate Adie / Journalist
British
Censorship
Covering
Military
Reporters
Struggle
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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 who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Contrary
Danger
Giving
Journalist
Mistaken
Personnel
Protection
Target
Totally
Armed
Turning
Escort
Even Worse
Journalists
Suppose
On The Contrary
Surrounded
Targets
Worse
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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 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 / Journalist
War
Gulf War
Information
Iraq
Justification
Nations
Soldier
Threat
United Kingdom
Being Used
Less
Particularly
Gulf
Obstructing
Second
Soldiers
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