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

  Jessica Savitch

  Wrinkles, News, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Salary, Irs, Belief

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Single Life, Life Is

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Attention, Literature, Unattractive

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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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?

  Jessica Savitch

  Mean, Cake, Half

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  War, Racing, Robbery

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

  Jessica Savitch

  Snakes, Lifelong, Phobia

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Balance, News, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Television is intensely personal.

  Jessica Savitch

  Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Anchors, Focus, News

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  News, Substance, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• 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

  Jobs, Long, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  People, Literature, Rooms

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Peers, Literature, Serious

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

  Jessica Savitch

  Blood, Doe, Cards

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• 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

  Men, Wife, Faces

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Goal, Literature

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Car, Tanks, Covering

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Police, Literature, Crime

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

  Jessica Savitch

  Nbc, Careers, Magazines

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

  Jessica Savitch

  Important Events, Panama Canal, Months

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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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.

  Jessica Savitch

  People, Cameras, Groups

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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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.

  Jessica Savitch

  Believe, Style, Earth

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Husband, Jealous, Watches

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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

  Jessica Savitch

  War, Honor, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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