Michael Palin Quotes

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• 'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.
• People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
• People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
• Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
• There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
• I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many…
• I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
• I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
• [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…
• My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
• I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full…
• As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty…
• 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
• You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.
• Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from…

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