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" I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. "
Diane Abbott
Postman
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" I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays. "
Leigh-Allyn Baker
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Christmas
Love
" Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas. "
Lewis Black
Online
No Time
Always
" Christmas is the day that holds all time together. "
Alexander Smith
Time
Holds
Day
" I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling. "
Kimberley Nixon
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Relax
" I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas,' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that. "
Drake Milligan
Blue
Coffee
Falling In Love
" The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth. "
Jay Parini
Story
Men
Wise
" Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May. "
Michael Dirda
Time
Story
Seasons
" It's not exactly calm at Christmas. It's a bit like the Simpsons appearing in a pasta advert - lots of bickering, crazy pets, and plenty of tomato sauce! "
Sophia Di Martino
Crazy
Pasta
Calm
" Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite. "
Joe Green
Bite
Social
You
" I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured. "
Colton Haynes
Smile
Attitude
Christmas
" When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding. "
Michael Korda
Luck
Good Luck
Child
" Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. "
Julian Fellowes
Special
Buildings
Always
" There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back. "
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Christmas
Thinking
Work
" I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events. "
Caterina Murino
Home
Back
Christmas
" I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day. "
Monica Seles
Day
Christmas
Flying
" My father was a manual worker. "
Diane Abbott
Father
Worker
Manual
" I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique. "
John Oates
Good
Time
Unique
" Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. "
Dag Hammarskjold
Day
Moment
Time
" I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere. "
Rebecca Romijn
Christmas
Think
Pressure
" Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me. "
Naomi Alderman
Perfect
Me
Always
" We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride. "
Sonya Walger
Thanksgiving
People
Over
" A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus. "
Ann Voskamp
Christmas
Much
Focus
" Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year. "
Marlo Thomas
Celebrate
Help
Lights
" 'El Gordo' is the name given to the oldest lottery jackpot in the world - and the richest. Held every year in Madrid on December 22, the Christmas Lottery culminates with the picking of the El Gordo number, the Fat One, which, for many, has become the true Christmas miracle in Spain. "
Michael Paterniti
True
Year
World
" I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23. "
Mary Steenburgen
Belief
Up
Treat
" T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. "
Clement Clarke Moore
House
Before
Through
" Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch. "
Malaika Arora Khan
Home
Night
Tree
" 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 love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special. "
Dean Devlin
Love
Big
Christmas
" 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. "
Hayden Schlossberg
Christmas
You
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