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Michael Palin Biography

Michael Edward Palin CBE FRGS (pronounced /ˈpeɪlɪn/; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was a member of the comedy group Monty Python and later made a number of travel documentaries.

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George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

Afterlife, Attractive, Death, Doe, Sad

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.

Aware, Everything, People, Sister, Struggle, Thinking

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Future, Geography, Holds, Keys, Our Future

First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

Count, Five, Naughty, Numbers, Sight, Thy

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

Married, Parent, Two, Wonder, Years

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

Ice, Icebreaker, Model, Models, Size, Tomkinson

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.

Everything, Eye, Looking, Notebook, Travelling, Trying

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

Bites, Bug, Bugs, Travel, Wander

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

Bicycle, Cycling, Important, Life, Ride, Riding A Bicycle

I will die, but not retire.

Die, Dies, Retire, Retiring

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 who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

Ego, Electric, Order, Thinking, Travel

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.

Person, Real, Successful, Track

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Basis, Government, Holy Grail, Listen, Lying, Power

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Argument, Cautious, People, Right, Vehemently

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

Eat, Needs, Play, Plays, Sleep

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.

Art, Artist, Love, Perfect, Travel, Traveller

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

Dancing, Fall, Night, Picchu, Queens

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.

Desert, Doe, People, Physical, Push

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

Modern, Think, Thinking, Writing

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 to actually produce something. The end.

Feelings, Full, House, Seeing, Writing

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