Charles Kuralt Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Growing Up, Kids, Firefighter

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Mother, Workout, Father

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Morning, Kids, School

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• I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

  Charles Kuralt

  Jobs, Good Luck, Years

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Sleep, Thinking, Done

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• I'm not any kind of social reformer.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kind, Social, Reformers

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• For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?

  Charles Kuralt

  Jobs, Years, Bills

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Father, Hate, Boys

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• I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

  Charles Kuralt

  Ambition, Opportunity, Newspapers

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• I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Impact, People, Stories

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• New York is the true City of Light in any season.

  Charles Kuralt

  New York, Light, Cities

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Typewriters, Joy, Trying

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• I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

  Charles Kuralt

  Journalism, Bigs, Competitiveness

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