Quotes By 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
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
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
Jessica Savitch
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
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
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
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
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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
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
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
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
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