Kate Adie Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.”

“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.”

“Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.”

“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.”

“I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.”

“I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.”

“I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.”

“I will never retire.”

“I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.”

“I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.”