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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Charles Kuralt
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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
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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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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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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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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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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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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 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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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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