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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.
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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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 used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.
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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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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 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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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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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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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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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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