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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

Charles Kuralt

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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
Realism
Place
Reality
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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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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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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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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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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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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