Savitch C Quotes & Sayings

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best. — Jessica Savitch

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

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

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals. — Jessica Savitch

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

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes. — Jessica Savitch

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. — Jessica Savitch

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. — 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

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

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

Men still control the news, both on and off camera. — Jessica Savitch

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

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

Being a novelty had its advantages. — Jessica Savitch

The problem is, at a certain point you can't stop thinking even if you want to. I swear, sometimes you just wish you could go back into the dark like a primitive person. But you cant, that's the problem with evolution. Once you have a little bit of knowledge, more of it just keeps coming at you like birds around a bagel. Sometimes when I learn things, I wish I hadn't learned them. — Victor Lodato

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer. — 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

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

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. — Jessica Savitch

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death? — Jessica Savitch

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

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

Television is intensely personal. — 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

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

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