Kate Adie Quotes

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

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!

I will never retire.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

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

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

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.

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

No two wars are identical.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.