Charles Kuralt Quotes

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Charles Kuralt

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 10, 1934

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

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

Charles Kuralt

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

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.

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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.

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

Charles Kuralt

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

Charles Kuralt

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.

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

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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.

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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

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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.

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I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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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.

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It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

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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.

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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.

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I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

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There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

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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