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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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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
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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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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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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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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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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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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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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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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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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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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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