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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 Say
#People
#Say
#Stupid
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
- Michael Palin
#Always
#More
#Nothing
#Person
#Wanted
Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.
- Michael Palin
#Being
#Great
#Just
#Paid
#Travelling
I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.
- Michael Palin
#Discomfort
#Fear
#Must
#Something
#Worse
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.
- Michael Palin
#Limits
#Me
#Travel
#Walk
#World
'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.
- Michael Palin
#Nice
#Nothing
#Someone
#Swear
#Who
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
- Michael Palin
#Back
#Experience
#Never
#Travel
#Trouble
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
#I Am
#Life
#Live
#Mind
#Village
I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
- Michael Palin
#Happy
#I Can
#Me
#People
#Seem
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
- Michael Palin
#Believe
#Crazy
#Find
#Hard
#People
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
#Love
#More
#People
#She
#Woman
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.
- Michael Palin
#Life
#Look
#My Life
#Struggle
#Way
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
- Michael Palin
#Everyone
#Go
#Island
#Love
#Wonderful
Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
- Michael Palin
#Acting
#Enjoy
#Hosting
#Love
#More
I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
- Michael Palin
#Know
#More
#People
#Piracy
#Want
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 where mind, body and soul would be utterly satisfied.
- Michael Palin
#Body
#Mind
#Place
#Soul
#Unique
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
#Better
#High Standards
#Look
#Myself
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
- Michael Palin
#Find
#I Am
#Sometimes
#Start
#Yourself
'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
#Avoid
#Ground
#High
#Moral
#Truth
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.
- Michael Palin
#Day
#Diary
#Looking
#See
#Trying
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
- Michael Palin
#Bicycle
#Important
#Life
#My Life
#Ride
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.
- Michael Palin
#Art
#Food
#Great
#Love
#Travel
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