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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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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
Actor
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Glasgow
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