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Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
Billy Connolly
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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
Actor
Banjoist
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Guitarist
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Glasgow
Scotland
Sir William Connolly
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