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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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New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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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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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 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 have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.
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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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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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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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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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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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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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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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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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