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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
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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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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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 believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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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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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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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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 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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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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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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