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" 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular. "
Claire Tomalin
Christmas
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" Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood. "
Whitley Strieber
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Christmas
Myself
" My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books. "
Donald Hall
Me
Christmas
Parents
" Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition. "
Fred Melamed
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" Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods - government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don't win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government. "
Milo Yiannopoulos
Voting
War
Fight
" I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years. "
Jamie Lawson
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Why
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" Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. "
Leigh-Allyn Baker
Morning
You
Name
" 'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone. "
Tess Gerritsen
Anxiety
Trees
I Am
" I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything. "
Johann Lamont
Friday
Last
You
" I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas. "
Karlie Kloss
Got
Christmas
Stone
" Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. "
Claire Tomalin
Short
Today
Attention
" God is in the details. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
God
Christmas
Details
" It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. "
Caroline Kennedy
Good
Work
Memories
" It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies. "
Michael Dirda
Movies
Father
Day
" I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again. "
Claire Tomalin
Autumn
School
Learning
" I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift. "
Sharon Lawrence
Myself
Family
Christmas
" Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies). "
Janet Napolitano
Planning
Christmas
Body
" South Park started as a little video Christmas card. "
Joel Hodgson
Started
Christmas
Little
" I like, 'I Believe In Father Christmas' - that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; 'Colder Than Winter' as well. There are so many beautiful songs. "
Sarah Brightman
Like
Beautiful
Father
" When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian. "
Matthew Pearl
Your
Children
Life
" Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly. "
Frank Abagnale
Parents
Thought
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" Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. "
Washington Irving
Flame
Christmas
Charity
" Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments. "
Gina Rodriguez
Up
Trees
Jewish
" Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. "
Robert Teeter
Time
Vacation
Seen
" You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree. "
Padma Lakshmi
Christmas
Wind
Tree
" I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. "
Rosecrans Baldwin
Growing Up
You
Time
" Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds. "
Pete Rose
Christmas
Work
Training
" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "
Robert Wilson
Growing Up
Texas
Man
" Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them. "
Claire Tomalin
Nature
Difficult
Far
" Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. "
Samantha Isler
Day
Other
Family
" I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality. "
Matt Haig
Father
Real
Reality