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On Bill's first comedy performance aged 13
>"He had done fourteen minutes. Seven minutes his, seven minutes Woody Allen's. Like anyone here at Baptist church camp would know the difference. [...] Some of the ladies in Mrs Hicks's Sunday school class asked if she had heard about her son Bill's performance. 'Well, Mary, he is very funny,' the head pastor said. 'But you may want to look at how you raised him."
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On Bill's early athleticism
>"He was a star running back in football, one of the fastest sprinters on the Spring Forest Junior High track team and he had a killer right pitch, breaking several records [...] Everyone assumed Bill would eventually win a full baseball scholarship"
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On Bill moving to highschool
>"Stratford High [...] was a brand new three-story brick monolith without any windows [...] Bill and [his best friend] Dwight [Slade] were just two more gangly freshmen wandering the halls - Bill with his bowl hair-cut and white T-shirt tucked into his jeans"
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