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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
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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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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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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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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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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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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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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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Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
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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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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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