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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 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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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