Quotes by Jessica Savitch

About Jessica Savitch:

Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television broadcaster and news reporter, host of PBS's Frontline and New York weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News during the short-lived Roger Mudd/Tom Brokaw era.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

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

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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

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

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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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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.

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

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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

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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?

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Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

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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.

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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

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

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

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJessica Savitch
  • DescriptionAmerican TV news reporter
  • BornFebruary 1, 1947
  • DiedOctober 23, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist