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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.

Charles Kuralt

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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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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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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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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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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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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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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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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.
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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 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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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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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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 think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
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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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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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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
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