Mathilda Savitch Quotes

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

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl. ~ Jessica Savitch

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know what I was hoping for. Some small praise, I guess. A bit of encouragement. I didn't get it. Miss Parrish took me aside one day after school let out. She said she'd read my stories and found them morbid and dispiriting. She said literature was meant to uplift the heart and that a young woman such as myself ought to turn her mind to topics more cheerful and inspiring than lonely hermits and dead children.

"Look around yourself, Mathilda," she said. "At the magnificence of nature. It should inspire joy and awe. Reverence. Respect. Beautiful thoughts and fine words."

I had looked around. I'd seen all the things she'd spoken of and more besides. I'd seen a bear cub lift it's face to the drenching spring rains. And the sliver moon of winter, so high and blinding. I'd seen the crimson glory of a stand of sugar maples in autumn and the unspeakable stillness of a mountain lake at dawn. I'd seen them and loved them. But I'd also seen the dark of things. The starved carcasses of winter deer. The driving fury of a blizzard wind. And the gloom that broods under the pines always. Even on the brightest days. ~ Jennifer Donnelly

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

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

Goodbyes are not forever. They are always partnered with see you again. ~ Mathilda Maldita

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

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. ~ Jessica Savitch

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right. ~ Jessica Savitch

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

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. ~ Jessica Savitch

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

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

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

In real life, events seem much less dramatic. ~ Jessica Savitch

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top. ~ Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages. ~ Jessica Savitch

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

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

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

Television is intensely personal. ~ Jessica Savitch

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

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

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying. ~ Jessica Savitch

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

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

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude. ~ Jessica Savitch

I know a lot of things, Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive. ~ Daniel H. Wilson