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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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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I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
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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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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 definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
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Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
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The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'
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I'm not afraid of getting into a subject I don't know much about.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
