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Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning
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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
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West Plains
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Richard Wayne Van Dyke
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One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.
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I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. A publisher came to me and said write a book so I did. I wanted to call it Everybody Else Has Got a Book.
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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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I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.
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I hear music and my feet just start moving.
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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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I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.
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I wanted to be a radio announcer.
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We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
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Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
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If you spend your life thinking, I wonder if today is when it ends, you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.
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I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.
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My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.
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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
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