Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

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.

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

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

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

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 didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

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.

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.

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

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

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

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

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.

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

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

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

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

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.