American - Journalist | February 1, 1947 - October 23, 1983
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
Jessica Savitch
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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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?
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How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
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By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
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Being a novelty had its advantages.
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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.
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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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A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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