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Jessica Savitch Inspirational Quotes (40)

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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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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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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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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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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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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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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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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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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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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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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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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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Television is intensely personal.
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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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