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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
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Better
Never
Southerner
Southern

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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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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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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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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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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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 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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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
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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 used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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 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 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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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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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
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