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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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Charles Bishop Kuralt
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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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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I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
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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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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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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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 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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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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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 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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