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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.
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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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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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 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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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
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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 parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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 think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
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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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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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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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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
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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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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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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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