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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

Topics: Growing Love Now Older People Read Something Still Think Would Write Years I Think 100 Years

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I'm not any kind of social reformer.

~Charles Kuralt

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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

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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.

~Charles Kuralt

Topics: America Assignment Assignments Freedom Fun Had Much Myself Never So Much Fun Stories Wander Wanted Were Years

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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

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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

Topics: About Because Cancelled Family Father Least Mad Mother Newspaper Our She Treatment Twice Working

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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

~Charles Kuralt

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Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

~Charles Kuralt

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 10th, 1934

Died: July 4th, 1997

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