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

Freedom, Care, Down

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

Danger, Fault, Rush

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

Life, Famous, Thought

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

School, Live, Progress

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

War, Freedom, Used

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

War, Someone, Remember

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

Read, Modern, Fiction

I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
Kate Adie

Time, Person, Actually

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
Kate Adie

Gossip, Media, Involved

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
Kate Adie

Violence, Attracted

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie

Nothing, Stories, Reporter

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
Kate Adie

Through, Childhood, Drama

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, Time, Teacher

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

Child, Stuff, Truly

I will never retire.
Kate Adie

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
Kate Adie

Book, Wanted, Write

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Kate Adie

Life, Heart, Short

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

Two, Last, Year

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

Give, Themselves, Turn

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

Heart, Job, Find

No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie

Two, Wars, Identical

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie

Children, Young, Carry

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

Question, Believing, Gone

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

War, Team, Support

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie

Good, Silence, Democracy

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: September 19, 1945

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