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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
Just
Read
I Am
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" I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip. "
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" Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. "
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Children
Carry
Now
" I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama. "
Kate Adie
Through
Lack
Drama
" I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. "
Kate Adie
Stories
Reporter
Nothing
" 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
People
War
Me
" 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
Hanging
Helicopter
Two
" I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. "
Kate Adie
About
Book
Left
" 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
Job
Story
People
" 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
Up
Mountains
Kind
" War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks. "
Kate Adie
Natural Disasters
Dangerous
Risks
" I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually. "
Kate Adie
Sort
Person
Sit
" I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short. "
Kate Adie
Heart
Sit
Short
" 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
School
Woman
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
Life
Famous
Day
" 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
Go
Struggle
You
" Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. "
Kate Adie
Jacket
Now
Never
" The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. "
Kate Adie
Good
Silence
Information
" 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
Myself
Freedom
Calm
" 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
Always
Media
Information
" I have never been attracted to any kind of violence. "
Kate Adie
Never
Attracted
Violence
" 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
Myself
Me
Fault
" No two wars are identical. "
Kate Adie
Two
Identical
Wars
" 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
Time
Saying
Go
" 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
Going
Danger
Protection