Jessica Savitch quotes

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. (Jessica Savitch)
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
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Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
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The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.
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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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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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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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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective. (Jessica Savitch)
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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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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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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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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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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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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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience. (Jessica Savitch)
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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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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Being a novelty had its advantages.
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The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
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