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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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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 saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
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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 I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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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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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 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 remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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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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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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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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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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