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Norwegian journalist and author, Birth: 10-2-1970 Asne Seierstad Quotes
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As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
Asne Seierstad

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I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.
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We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
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I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
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We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
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When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
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If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
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If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
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Quote Topics by Asne Seierstad: War Writing Book Believe Children Risk Country Thinking Important Names Trying Ifs Accepting Psychological Fundamentals Men Political Solve Objectivity Growing Up Lying Real Difficult News Stories Different Impossible Lasts Afghanistan Iraq Glasses
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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
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As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.
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If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
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I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.
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I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
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Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.
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As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.
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I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.
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If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
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If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.
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There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
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I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
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It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
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I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.
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Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.
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There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
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The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.
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There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.
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