Kate Adie Quotes & Sayings

“I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.”

“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.”

“The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.”

“I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.”

“War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.”

“In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.”

“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!”