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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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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 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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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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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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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 gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
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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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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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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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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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
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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 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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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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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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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