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Kate Adie

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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!


— Kate Adie


#am #danger #fault #get #i

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


— Kate Adie


#being #coverage #illustration #live #make

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.


— Kate Adie


#also #appearance #bbc #beirut #civil

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


— Kate Adie


#am #fiction #had #i #i am

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


— Kate Adie


#i #person #sit #sort #speculate

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.


— Kate Adie


#gossip #i #involved #media #want

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.


— Kate Adie


#attracted #been #i #kind #never

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.


— Kate Adie


#nothing #reporter #selection #stories

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


— Kate Adie


#childhood #complete #drama #i #lack

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.


— Kate Adie


#calm #calm down #care #down #excited






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Works
The Kindness of Strangers autobiography publiKate Adied by Headline ISBN 0-7553-1073-X
Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War publiKate Adied by Coronet ISBN 0-340-82060-8
Nobody's Child publiKate Adied by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN 0-340-83800-0
Into Danger publiKate Adied by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd(first ed. Early life
Adie was born in Northumberland within sight of St Mary's Island. Indeed it was this approach that elicited the wry adage that "a good decision is getting on a plane at an airport where Kate Adie is getting off".

Her most high-profile role was that of chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time Kate Adie became well known for reporting from war zones around the world. Kathryn "Kate" Adie (/ˈeɪdi/) OBE (born 19 September 1945) is an English journalist.

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