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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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News Presenter
New York City
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Charles Bishop Kuralt
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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 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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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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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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You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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