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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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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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