Charles Kuralt Quotes - Page 2

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• I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

  Charles Kuralt

  Reading, Believe, Writing

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• I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

  Charles Kuralt

  Sides, Spirit, Good Health

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Important, Covering

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• The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

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  Running, Country, Tradition

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• And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

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  Sunset, Sight, Storm

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• I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

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  Book, Library, Literature

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

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  Country, Book, Reading

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• I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

  Charles Kuralt

  Made, Print

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• I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

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  Texas, Perfect, North Carolina

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

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  Country, Stars, Yankees

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• A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

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  Southern, Said, Southerner

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

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  Parent, Wanted

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• The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

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  Rain, Illinois, Years

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• I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

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  Thinking, Stories, Lines

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• I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

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  Desire, Narcissism, My Own

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• Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

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  Country, Spring, Tombstone

  Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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  Hero, Luck, Worship

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• ...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

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  Dog, Pomeranians, Poodles

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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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  Philosophy, People, Important

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• You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

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  Stories, Towns, Kind

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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.

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  Romantic Love, Would Be, Looks

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• I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

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  Mother, Father, Kids

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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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  Love You, Mind, Privilege

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

  Charles Kuralt

  Touched, Conscience

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