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

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

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

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Television is intensely personal.

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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.

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One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

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

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

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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?

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The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

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

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

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In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

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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?

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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

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How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.

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

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

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

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

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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

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

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

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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.

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

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