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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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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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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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 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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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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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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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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I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
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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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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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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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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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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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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 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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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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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