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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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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
Fields
Anybody
Television
Gone
Intimations
Light
Immortality
Everything
Literally
Speed
Field

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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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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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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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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 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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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 can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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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 can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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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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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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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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