Charles Kuralt Quotes
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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 don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
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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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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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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.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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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 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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I'm not any kind of social reformer.
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I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
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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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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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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 suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.
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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.