Michael Palin Quotes

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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…
• One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
• 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…
• I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
• 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.
• The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
• 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…
• Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of…
• I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
• I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
• I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
• 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…
• 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…
• I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
• I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
• I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
• I will die, but not retire.
• I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
• 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.
• 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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