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" I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down. "

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" My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. "

Miranda Cosgrove

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" The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things. "

" When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit. "

" I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. "

" Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite. "

" Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments. "

Gina Rodriguez

Trees

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" My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. "

" Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune. "

" For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums. "

" Christmas albums are not something you do frequently. "

" I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. "

" I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns. "

" I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. "

" My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years. "

" Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament. "

Monica Seles

Journey

Best

" I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way. "

" The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols. "

" We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope. "

" To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry. "

" My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years. "

" There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album. "

Isaac Hanson

Done

Who

" I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature. "

" My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk. "

" I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything. "

" Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.' "

" Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. "

" Christmas is the day that holds all time together. "

" Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing. "

" On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. "

" My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea. "