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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
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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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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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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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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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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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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 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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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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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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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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