Charles Kuralt Quotes
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 world needs some help.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Writers are so important.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.
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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
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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.
