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

Jessica Savitch

#Birthday Quotes #Writing Quotes #Age Quotes

“I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'”
“Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.”
“The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.”
“I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.”
“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.”
“There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.”
“Power always works from the corner office.”
“But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.”

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