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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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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely."
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"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."
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"We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good."
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"My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good."
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"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."
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"I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich."
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"I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach."
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"Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go."
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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
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
Now
"I will never retire."
Will
"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 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
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
Timidity
"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
"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 have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
Pacifism
"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
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