Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
Jessica Savitch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
Developed
Audience
Literature
Sense
Best
Play
Many
Canny
Senators
More quotes by Jessica Savitch
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
Jessica Savitch
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Jessica Savitch
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.
Jessica Savitch
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
Jessica Savitch
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Jessica Savitch
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Jessica Savitch
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
Jessica Savitch
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Jessica Savitch
The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
Jessica Savitch
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
Jessica Savitch
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Jessica Savitch
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Jessica Savitch
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
Jessica Savitch
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.
Jessica Savitch
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Jessica Savitch
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
Jessica Savitch
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
Jessica Savitch
Television is intensely personal.
Jessica Savitch
