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All Quotes by author - Mary Leakey

" Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity. "

" I'd rather be in a tent than in a house. "

" I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found. "

" I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing. "

" I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going. "

" I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would. "

" I never felt interpretation was my job. "

" I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist. "

" No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. "

" Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece. "

" She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time. "

" The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools. "

" Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same. "

" You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known. "

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