Michael Palin Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Michael Palin

  Country, People, Immigration

  "Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

  Michael Palin

  Stupid, People, Spurs

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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

  Nice, Mean, Sound

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

  Michael Palin

  Travel, Bugs, Wander

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• It's not a model if it's full-scale, Tomkinson, it's an icebreaker.

  Michael Palin

  Ice, Size, Models

  "Fictional character: Mr. Ellis". TV Series "Ripping Yarns" ("Tomkinson's Schooldays", 1976), www.imdb.com. 1976-1979.

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• I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

  Michael Palin

  Growing Up, Block, Real

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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 alive. That's all.

  Michael Palin

  Running, People, Competition

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

  Michael Palin

  People, Seems, I Can

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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

  Islands, Iran, Desert

  "Michael Palin: 'I will die, but not retire'" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. July 04, 2013.

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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 to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

  Michael Palin

  Numbers, Track, Groups

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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

  Awards, Years, Achievement

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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.

  Michael Palin

  Real, Successful, Track

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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.

  Michael Palin

  Notebook, Eye, Trying

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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.

  Michael Palin

  Blessed, Careers, Two

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

  Michael Palin

  Country, World, Safe

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• Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

  Michael Palin

  Acting, Enjoy, Please

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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

  People, One Day, Novelists

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

  Michael Palin

  Crazy, Believe, Python

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

  Michael Palin

  Finding Yourself, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michael Palin

  Character, People, Useless

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