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" My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward. "
Michelle Huneven
Last
Christmas
Standing
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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
Morning
People
Think
" I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection. "
Kyle Mooney
Feel
Got
Like
" I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.' "
Karolyn Grimes
Christmas
Thought
Love
" 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
" Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. "
T. S. Eliot
Tree
Toys
Moving
" 'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video. "
Megan Nicole
First
Somebody
Around
" The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. "
Matt Dillon
Irish
Christmas
Father
" I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way. "
Drake Bell
Listening
Start
Christmas
" 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
Want
Government
Time
" All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut. "
Paul Engle
Cake
Food
Christmas
" One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics. "
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Time
Say
People
" When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum. "
Neil Jackson
Writing
Myself
Music
" At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be. "
Elif Batuman
Christmas
Always
Beginning
" I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd. "
Peter Dinklage
Once
Hat
Saw
" God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. "
Pope Francis
Understand
Gift
Christmas
" The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews have always produced a lot of holiday music, just not Hanukkah music. "
Matisyahu
Holiday
American
Time
" November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape. "
F. Sionil Jose
Harvest
Cool
Glow
" As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving. "
Gordon B. Hinckley
Christmas
Time
Need
" It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it. "
Susan Hill
People
Story
Short
" It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out. "
Christina Perri
Me
Christmas
Time
" I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them! "
Vince Clarke
Everyone
Them
Songs
" 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 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
" We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who played Scrooge in the first treatment for the screen. But my favorite Scrooge was Alastair Sim. He was enchanting, an absolutely beautiful performance. "
Christopher Plummer
Performance
Long
Christmas
" Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible. "
Lauren Graham
Party
Christmas
Celebrate
" My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. "
Jimmy Fallon
Parents
People
Ride
" Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read. "
Wayne Swan
Time
Family
Focus
" If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.' "
Denis Leary
Me
People
Work
" The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. "
Richard Roeper
Christmas
Advertising
Truth Is
" It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. "
Ronald Reagan
Home
Christmas
Talking