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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

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 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