Jessica Savitch Quotes
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Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
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In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
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The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
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Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
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For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
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I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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Being a novelty had its advantages.
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How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
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The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.
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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.