Quotes By Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

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?

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.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

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

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

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

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

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

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.

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

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.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

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

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

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

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

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

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.