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British
-
Journalist
Born:
September 19
, 1945
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
,
Time
,
Life Is Too Short
,
Saying
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
,
People
,
Job
,
Story
,
Find
,
Fast
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
,
Me
,
Support
,
People
,
Team
,
Always
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
,
Care
,
Speech
,
Calm
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
Soldiers
,
War
,
Freedom
,
Information
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
Kate Adie
War
,
Enemy
,
Propaganda
,
Because
,
Any
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
Struggle
,
You
,
Go
,
Censorship
,
Without
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
Kate Adie
Never
,
Jacket
,
Now
,
Years
,
Up
,
Got
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie
Good
,
Silence
,
Democracy
,
Better
,
Never
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
Media
,
Information
,
Always
,
Question
Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie
Children
,
People
,
Young
,
Now
,
Carry
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie
Two
,
Wars
,
Identical
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
Turn
,
Up
,
Surrounded
,
Protection
,
Just
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
,
Day
,
Thought
,
People
,
Radio
,
Name
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
Year
,
Hanging
,
Last
,
Us
,
Two
,
Out
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
,
I Am
,
Me
,
Way
,
Fault
,
Up
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Kate Adie
Life
,
Heart
,
Short
,
Never
,
Eat
,
Sit
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
Kate Adie
Book
,
Left
,
Write
,
Very
,
About
,
Wanted
I will never retire.
Kate Adie
Never
,
Will
,
Retire
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
Mountains
,
Child
,
Kind
,
Up
,
Yours
,
Stuff
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
,
Teacher
,
Time
,
School
,
Woman
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
Kate Adie
Childhood
,
Drama
,
Through
,
Complete
,
Any
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie
Nothing
,
Reporter
,
Stories
,
Selection
I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
Kate Adie
Violence
,
Never
,
Kind
,
Been
,
Attracted
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
Kate Adie
Media
,
Gossip
,
Want
,
Involved
,
Endless
I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
Kate Adie
Time
,
Person
,
Sit
,
Sort
,
Speculate
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