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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
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San Diego
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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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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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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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The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
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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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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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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 hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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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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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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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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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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Television is intensely personal.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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