Michael Palin
Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin CBE FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and later made a number of travel documentaries...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth5 May 1943
CityBroomhill, England
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I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely.
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If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.
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a straightforward, down-to-earth man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh - probably more often than anyone else I know.
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Of course there is a huge in our material welfare, religious upbringing, and things like that. But things like your family, your house, your children's education, your hope for the future, are things that throughout the Muslim world they would share very easily with their counterparts in America.
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Ronnie was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh.
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Ronnie could turn himself into any character. He did it with an effortless ease.
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Always look on the bright side of life. (Monty Python)
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I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.
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Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.
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I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
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I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
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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.
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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.
My marriage has worked because I am not around much.