I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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