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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
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Richard Wayne Van Dyke
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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.
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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
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Only funny line I've had was my first day on the set of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They were making me up, and I saw the director call the makeup man over, and he says What are we going to do about the hooter? And the makeup guy said, I'm not a plastic surgeon. So I started that show with a big nose, and quite conscious of it.
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Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.
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So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news I did everything. I did - played records.
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Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
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Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.
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I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
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I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
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I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.
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I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.
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