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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.
Jessica Savitch
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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
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News Presenter
San Diego
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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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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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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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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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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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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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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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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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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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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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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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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
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