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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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Jessica Savitch
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Born:
February 1, 1947
Died:
October 23, 1983
(aged 36)
Bio:
Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television news presenter and correspondent, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily presenter of NBC News updates during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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