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" My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. "
Pico Iyer
Myself
Me
Christmas
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" 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
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" It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me. "
Luke Perry
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" There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. "
Helen Hayes
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" Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments. "
Adrian Younge
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People
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" Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. "
Amanda Lindhout
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You
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" I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy. "
Lucy Hale
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People
Think
" I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy. "
Drake Bell
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Listening
Early
" I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers. "
Tony Bradman
Great
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" My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great to hear their son's voice on the radio while they visited. "
Johnny Mathis
Great
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" Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose. "
Anne Reid
Cooking
School
Parents
" 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
Me
" I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays. "
Bryson Tiller
Going Home
Bus
People
" Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code. "
Michael Dirda
Me
Mom
Parents
" My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board. "
Nick Frost
Wife
Brother
Sea
" No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! "
Dolly Parton
Mountain
Love
Laugh
" Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. "
Jimmy Cannon
Holiday
Christmas
Rejected
" When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve. "
Jane Lynch
Remember
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Me
" Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress. "
Sarah Polley
Christmas
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" Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. "
Ralph W. Sockman
Religion
Youth
Science
" Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left. "
John Waters
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Christmas
Only
" Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. "
Winston Churchill
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Season
" According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. "
Grazia Deledda
Legend
End
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" When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box. "
Philippe Petit
Silly
Love
Book
" Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth. "
May-Britt Moser
Memories
Childhood
Christmas
" I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing. "
George Kotsiopoulos
Christmas
Like
Friends
" You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet. "
Pico Iyer
World
You
Best
" 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
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" Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things. "
Marie Rutkoski
Sister
She
Christmas
" Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand. "
Pico Iyer
Home
Place
Sleep
" Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do. "
Pico Iyer
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Much