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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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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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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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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 had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
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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 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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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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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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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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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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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 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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