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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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
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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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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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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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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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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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 think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
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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 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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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 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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