Jessica Savitch Quotes

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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

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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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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

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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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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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In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

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Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

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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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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

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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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When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

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One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

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Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

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