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Jessica Savitch [1947-1983] American

Rank: 104
Journalist, Television presenter

Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television news presenter and correspondent, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily presenter of NBC News updates during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Attitude, Car, Chance, Family, Marriage, Motivational, Relationship, Women

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Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.	Chance, Women	101
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.		102
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.	Motivational	103
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.	Attitude, Family	104
The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.		105
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.		106
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.	Relationship	107
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.		108
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.		109
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.		110
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.		111
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.		112
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.		113
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.		114
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.		115
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.		116
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.		117
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.		118
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.	Marriage	119
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?		120
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.		121
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.	Car	122
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.		123
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.		124
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.		125
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.		126
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.		201
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.		202
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.		203
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.		204
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.		205
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.		206
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.		207
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.		208
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.		209
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.		210
Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.		211
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.		212
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.		213
Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.		214
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.		215
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.		216
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?		217
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.		218
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.		219
Television is intensely personal.		220
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.		221
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.		222
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.		223
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.		224
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.		225
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.		226
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?		301
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.		302
I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.		303
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.		304
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.		305
Being a novelty had its advantages.		306
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.		307

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