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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
Correspondent
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New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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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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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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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 think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
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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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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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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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