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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,Easy doesn't enter into grown-up life.

Michael Caine

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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Film Actor
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
Sir Michael Caine
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Sir Michael Caine
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