Jessica Savitch Quotes

Being a novelty had its advantages.
Jessica Savitch

Novelty, Advantages

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
Jessica Savitch

Car, Far, Assignment

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
Jessica Savitch

Career, Valuable, Magazine

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Jessica Savitch

Until, Police, Crime

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
Jessica Savitch

Snakes, Lifelong, Phobia

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
Jessica Savitch

Society, Question, Read

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

Marriage, Children, Job

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
Jessica Savitch

Mother, Wanted, Her

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
Jessica Savitch

Best, Play, Sense

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
Jessica Savitch

Goal, Place, Goals

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
Jessica Savitch

Time, Goal, Network

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
Jessica Savitch

Girl, Job, College

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.
Jessica Savitch

Family, Attitude, Focus

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Jessica Savitch

Work, Successful, Matter

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
Jessica Savitch

Cannot, Themselves, Attention

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
Jessica Savitch

Tired, Reason, Left

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Jessica Savitch

Free, System, Media

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
Jessica Savitch

Honor, Gang, Wars

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
Jessica Savitch

Texas, Characters, Defined

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
Jessica Savitch

Good, Bad, Fire

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
Jessica Savitch

Coverage, Viewer

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.
Jessica Savitch

Place, Road, Eat

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

Woman, Real, Difficult

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Jessica Savitch

Women, Old, Belief

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
Jessica Savitch

Saying, Write, Looks

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 1, 1947

Died: October 23, 1983

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