Michael Palin Quotes - Page 3

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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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• When in doubt, resort to animation.

  Michael Palin

  Doubt, Resorts, Animation

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

  Michael Palin

  Country, World, Safe

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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