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We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

Asne Seierstad

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Asne Seierstad
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 10
Journalist
Writer
Oslo
Norway
Aasne Seierstad
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Vacuums
Societies
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If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
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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.
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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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There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.
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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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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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It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
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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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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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As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.
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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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I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.
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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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