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

"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, British Journalist

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

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

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Personal Development

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

Fiction

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

Life

"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."

War

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

Democracy

"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."

Care

"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

"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

"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."

Marriage

"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."

Danger

"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!"

Danger

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

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Personal Development

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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."

Fiction

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

Life

"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."

War

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

Democracy

"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."

Care

"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

"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

"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."

Marriage

"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."

Danger

"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!"

Danger