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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

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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
Enthusiasm
Passion
Important

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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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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 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 think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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 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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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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