Charles Kuralt Quotes - Page 4

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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

  Light, Fields, Gone

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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

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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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

  Retirement, School, Trying

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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

  Mother, Workout, Father

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• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

  Charles Kuralt

  Morning, Kids, School

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• When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

  Charles Kuralt

  Father, Hate, Boys

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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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  Jobs, Good Luck, Years

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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.

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  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?

  Charles Kuralt

  Jobs, Years, Bills

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• I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

  Charles Kuralt

  Ambition, Opportunity, Newspapers

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• I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Impact, People, Stories

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• I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Appreciation, Struggle

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• I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

  Charles Kuralt

  Ulcers, Pressure, I've Learned

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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

  Baseball, Book, Thinking

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