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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
Southerner
Southern
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Never

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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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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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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 believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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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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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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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
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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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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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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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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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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You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.
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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 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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