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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt
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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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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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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 everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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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 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 wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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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 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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I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
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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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You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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