Charles Kuralt Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

  Charles Kuralt

  Heard, Asks

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