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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.
Michael Palin
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Michael Palin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Michael Edward Palin
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My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
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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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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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I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
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One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
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I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
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John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.
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You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.
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There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
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Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
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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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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
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You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.
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Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
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I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.
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People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
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It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've never eaten before, a language you've never spoken before, religion that mystifies, customs that confuse, politics that perplex, all question everyday assumptions about how you live your life.
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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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There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.
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Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.
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