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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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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
True
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Never
Southerner
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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 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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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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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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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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 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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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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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 reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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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 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 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 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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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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