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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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New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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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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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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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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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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