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" I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do. "

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" But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington. "

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" Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. "

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" I'm a little different from all those conservation types. "

" My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants. "

" Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type. "

" Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left. "

" Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. "

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" I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees. "

" Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there. "

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" According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. "