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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
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Anybody
Television
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Immortality
Everything
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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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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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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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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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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 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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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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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