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Jessica Savitch Quotes
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Journalist Quotes
Category:
American Journalist Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 1, 1947
Date of Death:
October 23, 1983
Nationality:
American
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Jessica Savitch

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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
Jessica Savitch

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
Jessica Savitch

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.
Jessica Savitch

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

Being a novelty had its advantages.
Jessica Savitch

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
Jessica Savitch

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

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
Jessica Savitch

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

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

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
Jessica Savitch

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

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

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

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