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"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"
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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."
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"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."
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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
"Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds."
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"One thing is true and that Humans are the examples of killers which destroy other fellows dreams."
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"Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or...""Or we'll die?" I guessed."Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes.""Let's avoid the swords," I decided."
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"The wolf pounces on the sheep when the shepherd strays."
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"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity."
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"Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music."
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"Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse."
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"Even if you're an outstanding fighter, you can lose your life with one mistake."
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"Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center."
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"Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. "You shouldn't have turned it on! It's unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!"
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"The plan had three phases: dangerous, really dangerous and insanely dangerous."
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