“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.”
― Jessica Savitch
“For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.”
― Jessica Savitch
“The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.”
― Jessica Savitch
“I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.”
― Jessica Savitch
“News events are like Texas weather. If you don’t like it, wait a minute.”
― Jessica Savitch
“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Walking into a room filled with people you don’t know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.”
― Jessica Savitch
“The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can’t grow old in television news.”
― Jessica Savitch
“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.”
― Jessica Savitch
“The news anchor is exactly that – an anchor, a center, a focus.”
― Jessica Savitch
“The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Women didn’t want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands’ diverted attention.”
― Jessica Savitch
“When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.”
― Jessica Savitch
“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.”
― Jessica Savitch
“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
“To get it first is important – but more important is to get it right.”
― Jessica Savitch
“The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.”
― Jessica Savitch
“The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.”
― Jessica Savitch
“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
“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
“The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.”
― Jessica Savitch
“The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Television is intensely personal.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they’re gang wars and racial riots.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.”
― Jessica Savitch
“One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.”
― Jessica Savitch
“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
“News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.”
― Jessica Savitch
“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
“My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.”
― Jessica Savitch
“My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.”
― Jessica Savitch
“My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Mistakes are not always the result of someone’s ineptitude.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Men still control the news, both on and off camera.”
― Jessica Savitch
“It is my belief that one’s salary is between an individual and the IRS.”
― 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
“In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.”
― Jessica Savitch
“In real life, events seem much less dramatic.”
― 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 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
“I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.”
― Jessica Savitch
“I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.”
― Jessica Savitch
“I hadn’t realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.”
― 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
“How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.”
― 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
“By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.”
― Jessica Savitch
“Being a novelty had its advantages.”
― 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
“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
“A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You’re flesh and blood.”
― Jessica Savitch
“A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.”
― Jessica Savitch
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