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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
Jessica Savitch
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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
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San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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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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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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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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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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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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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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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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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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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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Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
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Television is intensely personal.
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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 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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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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