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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.

Dick Van Dyke

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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
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