Charles Kuralt Quotes - Page 4

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

  Charles Kuralt

  Journalism, Bigs, Competitiveness

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Ideas, Calling, Want

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Baseball, Book, Thinking

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Retirement, School, Trying

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Girlfriend, Boys, Dating

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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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• I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Pressure, Reputation

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Happiness, Thinking, People

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• I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

  Charles Kuralt

  People, Romance, Lucky

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• I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

  Charles Kuralt

  Baseball, Team, Believe

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• In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

  Charles Kuralt

  Light, Fields, Gone

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Appreciation, Struggle

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• You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

  Charles Kuralt

  Heard, Asks

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