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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Michael Palin
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Michael Palin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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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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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Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
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There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
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The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
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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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My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
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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 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'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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If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.
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The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
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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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I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
Michael Palin
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
Michael Palin
Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
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