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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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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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New York City
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Charles Bishop Kuralt
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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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I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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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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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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 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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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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