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"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
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"Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all."
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"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
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"Old is always fifteen years from now."
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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
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
Now
"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
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