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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.
Jessica Savitch
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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
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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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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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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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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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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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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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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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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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