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" If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!' "
Janet Montgomery
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" It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it. "
Zack Snyder
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You
Christmas
" I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting. "
Mary Berry
Christmas
Way
I Am
" Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. "
Stephen Fry
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First
" I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house. "
Josie Bissett
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Money
Parents
" My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again. "
Stephen Elop
He
Remember
Never
" I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas. "
Hillary Scott
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Spirit
Love
" The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. "
John Clayton
World
Christmas
Competition
" Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers - in terms of gross amounts - because you have one and a half to two months. "
Jacques Torres
You
Two
Numbers
" I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant. "
Queen Latifah
Simple
Thankful
Thanksgiving
" Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc. "
Renee Fleming
Eventually
Around
Christmas
" My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. "
Kary Mullis
Pick
Us
Mother
" People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents. "
Bryce Courtenay
Christmas
Say
Make
" One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.' "
Gian Carlo Menotti
Lived
Impression
Christmas
" One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. "
Andy Rooney
World
Clean
Day
" The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. "
Lionel Blue
Him
Manifest
Real
" One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth. "
Zooey Deschanel
About
Christmas
Love
" Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. "
Richard Lamm
Time
Want
Tell
" Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it. "
Larry the Cable Guy
Christmas
Look
Forward
" My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea. "
Johnny Mathis
Mom
Always
Christmas
" I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted. "
Greg Lake
Me
Guitar
Friend
" I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas. "
Gary Barlow
Looking
Christmas
Good
" I'm a huge 'Nightmare before Christmas' fan, but that was also Henry Selick. I'm a really big fan of 'Sleepy Hollow.' I love 'Big Fish,' too, which is a bit different. There's a really cool era of early-Burton stuff like 'Ed Wood' that I'm a big fan of. "
Kate Leth
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Wood
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" I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves. "
Drake Bell
Love
Me
Holiday
" Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up. "
Wendy Cope
Christmas
Us
Peace
" May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast. "
Alastair Campbell
Political
Mother
Queen
" Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. "
Charles M. Schulz
Someone
Little
Extra
" I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me. "
Johnny Mathis
Christmas
Happy
Place
" For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present. "
Karen Robards
World
Me
Husband
" I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. "
Clint Black
Christmas
Writing
Song
" Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book. "
Jean Harlow
Book
Me
Give Me