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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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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 have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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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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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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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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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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