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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not any kind of social reformer. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Charles Kuralt)
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring. View quote
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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. View quote
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I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus. View quote
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The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. View quote
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