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"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
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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."
Democracy
"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."
Danger
"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
"Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds."
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"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
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"Nicholson Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to say: "Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them." I must say that everything in me declines to be addressed in that tone of voice."
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"Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting."
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"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
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