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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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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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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 used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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