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"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
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"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."
Life
"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."
People
"I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama."
Family
"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."
Life
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
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"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
Nothing
"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."
Life
"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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"Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss."
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