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Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

Michael Palin

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Michael Palin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
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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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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'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 saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
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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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In the absence of fear there is little faith.
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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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Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
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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.
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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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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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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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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 will die, but not retire.
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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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When in doubt, resort to animation.
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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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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 can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
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