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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

Billy Connolly

I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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Brought Catholic Guilt Level
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Comedy Euthanasia Fame
Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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Fraudulence People Pomposity Sometimes Thinking Water
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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About Always Children Comedy Country
Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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Fire Forests Tree
I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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Citizens People Represented Thinking
I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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Crosses Malfunction
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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Apparently Men Race Sex Women
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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Department Parent Pet Zoos
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Country Seasons Travel Winter
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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Become Changing Clothes Life Successful
I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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Big Fan Fans Home Rottweilers
I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Britain Europe Thinking
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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Desert Drawing Islands Middle Page
There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Anything Comment Figure Matrimony
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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Country Music Optimism People Wanter

I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

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