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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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"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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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"
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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"What is now proved was once only imagined."
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"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
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"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen."
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"I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now."
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