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I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

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Michael Palin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
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I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.
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I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
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I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
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Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
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Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.
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When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.
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People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of ... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
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In the absence of fear there is little faith.
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I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
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I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
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I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
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I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
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