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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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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
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News Presenter
New York City
New York
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 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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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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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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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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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have 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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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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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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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 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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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