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Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
Charles Kuralt
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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
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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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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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I'm not any kind of social reformer.
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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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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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There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles Kuralt