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Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
Jessica Savitch
Women
Chance
May
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
Jessica Savitch
Listening
Saying
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Jessica Savitch
Managers
News
Television
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
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Idea
Being
Television
Woman
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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Life
Men
Women
Fact
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
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Blood
Press
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.
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People
Being a novelty had its advantages.
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Being
Novelty
Television is intensely personal.
Jessica Savitch
Television
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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Balance
Gain
News
Public
Television
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
Jessica Savitch
Politicians
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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People
Fire
News
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
Road
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
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Death
Wife
Man
Right
Value
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
Want