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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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Admiration
Love
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Inspiring
Wealth
Friends
Family
Inspirational

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I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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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 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 remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
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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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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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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's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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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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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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