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" One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' "
Julie Burchill
Tradition
Doing
Christmas
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" I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? "
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" I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious. "
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" I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.' "
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" 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. "
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