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“For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Hard Work #Two #Eight
“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Motivational #Monday #Sight
“The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Wrinkles #News #Television
“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

#Attitude #Focus #Prejudice
“News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Events #News #Literature
“I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Half #Literature #Surprise
“In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Mother #Wanted
“Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Believe #Style #Earth
“It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Salary #Irs #Belief
“News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Texas #Weather #Waiting
“Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#War #Honor #Literature
“Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#News #Substance #Television
“Television is intensely personal.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Television
“Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Balance #Gains #News
“The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Anchors #Focus #News
“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

#Taken #Finals #Literature
“I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Snakes #Lifelong #Phobia
“Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Husband #Jealous #Want
“A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Men #Facts #Modern Life
“I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Peers #Literature #Serious
“It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Careers #Effort #Joints
“Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Birthday #Writing #Age
“I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Mean #Cake #Half
“In real life, events seem much less dramatic.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Real #Real Life #Events
“Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Mistake #Ineptitude #Results
“A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Blood #Shields #Doe
“Men still control the news, both on and off camera.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Men #Cameras #News
“What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Men #Wife #Faces
“To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Important #Literature #Firsts
“The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.”
-- Jessica Savitch

#Important #Panama Canal #Months

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