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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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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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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
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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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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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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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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 believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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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'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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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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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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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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