QUOTES by Jessica Savitch
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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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"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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"A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood."
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"A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men."
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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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"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."
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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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"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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"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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"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."
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"I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist."
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"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."
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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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"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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"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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"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."
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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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"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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"In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter."
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"Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain."
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"Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form."
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"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."
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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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"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."
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"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
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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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"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
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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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"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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