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"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."
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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."
"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."
"The right thing done at the wrong time will not bring about the right results."
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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."
"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."
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
"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."
"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."
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
"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."
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