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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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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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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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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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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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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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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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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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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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