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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.

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Billy Connolly
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
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On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.
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Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.
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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
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,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.
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