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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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
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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
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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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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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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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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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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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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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