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25 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“Afghanistan is particularly difficult because they have some built-in radar when they know there’s somebody with a camera.”
02 / evaluation
“The only reason, in a way, the Taliban were kicked out in 2001 was because of 9/11.”
03 / belief
“I think for Afghans, it’s particularly tough because they have such a love for their country.”
04 / belief
“If you read the story, you’d be filled in on what was going on. It was a very striking moment of the kind of fear, I think, that you could imagine a girl like that having.”
05 / belief
“Didn’t know whether she would or not, and in the end, she did, and we did that. That was pretty extraordinary because I think what she wrote about Afghanistan was so unique.”
06 / belief
“Afghan ISIS and those people would be very dangerous. But to go to Kabul, it’s very safe, I think.”
07 / uncertainty
“Do they have much choice? I don’t know how much choice they have in the theocracy.”
08 / uncertainty
“Don’t know. To this day, I don’t know. Got off the plane, was happy to be on terra firma, and that was the end of it.”
09 / belief
“I think if you’re interested in the history, you’ll read around the subjects, and you’ll draw parallels.”
10 / belief
“Again, huge generalizations, I’m afraid. It’s a huge country, but I think people are as happy as anywhere else, what I saw.”
11 / belief
“You could say that was the Afghans’ fault, but I think, actually, the people that were giving the money, the West, should have been more vigilant.”
12 / belief
“Even if things had been going well, I think I would’ve wanted to taste what else is out there.”
13 / belief
“I was thinking that when I was there, that actually is… it’s a very strong possibility. Eventually, that’ll happen, because I think also the country needs it.”
14 / belief
“In fact, I think that what happened was when the Celtic Tiger happened, and then there was that terrible crash, it is reckoned that the Irish learned a lesson.”
15 / belief
“I think also there were good decisions made by the government to offer education and promote it, and that’s why I think the South is booming.”
16 / belief
“I wouldn’t say religion has gone necessarily, but I think the church has really suffered.”
17 / commitment
“I didn’t become a photographer in Ireland. It wasn’t until I went to America, and I bought a camera, and I had time.”
18 / evaluation
“It’s very competitive. It’s changed so much since I started doing it, but that, actually, they could handle because they grew up with the technology and the way things are, so that wouldn’t be a problem for them.”
19 / evaluation
“I think in the case of Afghanistan, they’re traumatized. I think there is definitely a trauma.”
20 / commitment
“I did a small little multimedia piece, and I wrote the script saying that 5,000 people had been killed in 2012.”
21 / preference
“The thing is, I moved to London in ’87, and I never thought of London as my home for many years because I was traveling a lot.”
22 / evaluation
“The point is it’s flats, whereas these buildings would’ve housed a very extended family, maybe 20 people living in it.”
23 / evaluation
“In America, people will be loyal to whatever president you have because they’ve lost people in wars, the veterans.”
24 / evaluation
“I think Afghanistan’s had a very bad taste of it because they are in a strategic position where they can be exploited.”
25 / evaluation
“I think some of my work might have influenced her in some way by looking at pictures from Afghanistan because she wrote about the First World War, she wrote about Iraq, she wrote about Afghanistan, and she wrote about England.”