Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, CBEis a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. As of 2014, she has been recognized as one of the journalists most world leaders follow on Twitter, according to a report by the PR firm Burson-Marsteller...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 January 1958
certainly manage strain takes
We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
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No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.
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I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.
prepared
the world as a whole is prepared to act.
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European leaders are expected to disagree with Bush's olive branch.
sorted
Now, ... now that we've got that sorted out, can we all go inside?
carrying
Let's see what they're carrying first, ... It's just water.
carry cheap focus gimmicks groups journalism matter proven time
No matter what the hocus-pocus focus groups tell you, time has proven that all the gimmicks and all the cheap journalism can only carry us so far.
awful call dependent great groups interested people society
But think how much more of a contribution we could make to this great society if we weren't so dependent on what I call those hocus-focus-pocus awful groups who tell us what people are not interested in.
brought demands direct president prosecutor suspects tribunal
Now that the tribunal has (former Yugoslav president Slobodan) Milosevic in the dock, the prosecutor (Carla del Ponte) is being more and more direct in her demands that the two most wanted suspects be brought in now.
either handling noisy rather side stared walked
It wasn't noisy and it wasn't with much resistance, but he stared them down and walked out with them on either side rather than rather than them handling him,
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Somalis themselves feel that they are under some sort of what they call psychological warfare. They know that at last the word is out that Somalia may be a next likely target.
expected fully hectic road war
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
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Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.