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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.
Charles Kuralt
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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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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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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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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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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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