Michael Palin Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.
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Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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God doesn't make mistakes. So if I'm supposed to die, there's a very good reason for it. I'm not going to question him. I'm just going to enjoy all these beautiful things that God created.
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The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
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I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.
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For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
