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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Charles Kuralt
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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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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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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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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 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 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.
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I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
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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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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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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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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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