Jessica Savitch Quotes - Page 2

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 latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

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

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

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?

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

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

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

Television is intensely personal.

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

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

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

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

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

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

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

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