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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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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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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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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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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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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 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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
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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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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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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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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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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'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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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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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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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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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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