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People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
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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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
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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 wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.
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Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.
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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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I will die, but not retire.
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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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