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Michael Palin  Quotes
I will die, but not retire.

—Michael Palin

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The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you’ve had, that’s the most important thing, and you have to remember that.

—Michael Palin

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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn’t help a feeling of warmth and security....

—Michael Palin

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‘Nice’ means nothing. Is it someone who doesn’t swear and shout? I swear and shout. ‘Nice’ sounds ineffectual.

—Michael Palin

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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.

—Michael Palin

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When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: ‘I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I’ve never quite sorted them out.’

—Michael Palin

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ReadUnderstand
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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...

—Michael Palin

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There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

—Michael Palin

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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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‘The Truth’ is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It’s meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

—Michael Palin

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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people.

—Michael Palin

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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...

—Michael Palin

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I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it’s part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that...

—Michael Palin

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Learn
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I’m not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I’m not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn’t know very much, trying to communicate.

—Michael Palin

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Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’.

—Michael Palin

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I love reading other people’s diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf’s – such a formidable woman that it’s a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

—Michael Palin

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The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

—Michael Palin

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RaceSlow
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Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn’t I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things...

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I’ve never had a particular skill. I can’t cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I’d think, when I’m grown up, at 18, then I made it 21,...

—Michael Palin

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So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I’d better tell my story before other people told it...

—Michael Palin

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[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of ‘democracy’ and ‘equality’ – they’re the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them...

—Michael Palin

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CapitalismCompetitionDemocracy
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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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AdmirableMaybeSaw
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I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

—Michael Palin

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HappyQuiteSeem
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I’ve been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the...

—Michael Palin

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If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and ‘Python’ achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans –...

—Michael Palin

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RockStarSuccessful
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I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

—Michael Palin

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ArgumentBlack-And-WhiteDebate
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One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

—Michael Palin

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DaysLearned
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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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I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

—Michael Palin

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I’ve been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I’ve often had a guide who’s been able...

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NumberOften
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Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling – I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

—Michael Palin

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LookingSeen
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The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

—Michael Palin

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Trouble
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Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.

—Michael Palin

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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....

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ThemselvesWalk
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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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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

—Michael Palin

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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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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?

—Michael Palin

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Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place...

—Michael Palin

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MindSenseSoul
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I have been unusually blessed in that I’ve been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

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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...

—Michael Palin

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I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, ‘Why wasn’t that better?’ Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt – I have got to prove myself wrong.

—Michael Palin

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HighMotivationWrong
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Fame changes everything. When you’re well-known, you’re expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you’re famous because you are ‘A Decent Man’.

—Michael Palin

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ChangesFour
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I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

—Michael Palin

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CertainlyInterestedStart
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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

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My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

—Michael Palin

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HappinessLoveMarriage
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I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely.

—Michael Palin

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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.

—Michael Palin

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DoomedSeemedSilly
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I’m not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer… I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

—Michael Palin

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I am restless. I don’t mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

—Michael Palin

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MindYear
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