Kate Adie - OpenMeans

Kate Adie

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Born	Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes	15

Kate Adie

Title	Category
I will never retire.	Uncategorized
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.	Uncategorized
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.	Uncategorized
I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.	Uncategorized
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.	Uncategorized
I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.	Uncategorized
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.	Uncategorized
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!	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized