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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

~Charles Kuralt

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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

~Charles Kuralt

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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

~Charles Kuralt

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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

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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

~Charles Kuralt

Topics: Ambitious Driving Labor Needed Sleepless Succeed Think Used You

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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

~Charles Kuralt

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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

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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

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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

~Charles Kuralt

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

~Charles Kuralt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 10th, 1934

Died: July 4th, 1997

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