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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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"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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"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."
War
"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."
Progress
"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
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
Democracy
"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
Pacifism
"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
"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."
Time
"I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama."
Family
"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've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."
Life
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