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" I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. "

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" I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself. "

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" Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. "

" You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to. "

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" I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins. "

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" I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start. "

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