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Kate Adie

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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.


— Kate Adie


#become #church #england #expected #i

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.


— Kate Adie


#any #child #did #frightened #i

I will never retire.


— Kate Adie


#never #retire #will

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


— Kate Adie


#book #i #left #period #specifically

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


— Kate Adie


#been #eat #heart #i #life

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.


— Kate Adie


#drove #hanging #helicopter #i #just

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.


— Kate Adie


#find #get #going #heart #job

No two wars are identical.


— Kate Adie


#two #wars

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.


— Kate Adie


#children #kill #nine #now #people

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.


— Kate Adie


#always #believing #british #contact #gone






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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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