53 Quotes by Kate Adie

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

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!

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it’s propaganda for the enemy.

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.

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

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 have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

I will never retire.