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"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago."
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"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."
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"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
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"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."
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"And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years."
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"In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years."
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"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"
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"Just five years before that the Russians were our allies."
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"I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years."
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"The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years."
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"I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years."
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"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago."
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"We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man."
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"We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed."
Time

"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."
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"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils."
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"We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers."
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"One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult."
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"I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out."
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"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task."
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"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."
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