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" I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate. "

" I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like. "

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" Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window. "

" I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. "

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" I will die, but not retire. "

" I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy. "

" People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract. "

" The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. "

" I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong. "

" Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place. "

" I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. "

" There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe. "

" Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally. "

" When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.' "

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" People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. "

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" I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that. "