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Charles Kuralt Inspirational Quotes (49)

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That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
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I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.
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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
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I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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