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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
Southern
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True
Better
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Southerner

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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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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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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
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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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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
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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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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 believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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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 I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
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