#or

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

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. ↗

— James Allen

#effort #efforts #human #human affairs #measure

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

— Kate Adie

#nothing #reporter #selection #stories

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

— Kate Adie

#been #eat #heart #i #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. ↗

— Kate Adie

#find #get #going #heart #job

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

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. ↗

— Kate Adie

#assume #back-up #cameraman #costume #driver