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"He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself."

"I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged."

"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."

"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
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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."

"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."
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