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" Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. "
Winston Churchill
Only
Christmas
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" I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it! "
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" I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it's snowing. Like, it's Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it's snowing, and you can't find them. "
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" If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. "
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" Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook. "
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" Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. "
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" One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech. "
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" Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner. "
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" I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. "
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" For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood. "
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" Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it. "
Richard Lamm
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" Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor. "
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Time
Sister
" Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! "
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" Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me. "
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" Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. "
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Alone
" If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Harold & Kumar' movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer. "
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" Most people think to make green bean casserole around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but honestly, I make this dish more during the summer, when green beans can be found fresh at the market. I think it is the perfect meal when served with crusty bread, a bountiful salad, and a cup or two of wine. "
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" The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. "
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Soul
Care
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Father
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" Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. "
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Feel
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" My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.' "
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" Great and good are seldom the same man. "
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