Charles Kuralt Quotes - Page 3

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• TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

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  Hate, Writing, Air

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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.

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  Falling In Love, Writing, Trying

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• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

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  Song, Winter, Singing

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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

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  Achievement, Credit, Fortune

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

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  Real, Literature, World

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

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  Thinking, Insomnia, Ambitious

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• America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

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  Rivers, America, Stories

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• I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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  Literature, Reader

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• If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

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  Heaven, Bills, Sun

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

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  Running, Rivers, People

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

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  Running, Home, Memorable

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Done

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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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  Growing Up, Kids, Firefighter

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• I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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  Kind, Social, Reformers

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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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  Happiness, Thinking, People

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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.

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  Thinking, Pressure, Reputation

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• I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

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  Baseball, Team, Believe

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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.

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  People, Romance, Lucky

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• You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

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  Heard, Asks

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

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  Journalism, Bigs, Competitiveness

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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.

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  Ideas, Calling, Want

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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.

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  Girlfriend, Boys, Dating

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• That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

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  Typewriters, Joy, Trying

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• New York is the true City of Light in any season.

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  New York, Light, Cities

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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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  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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