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" When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian. "

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" Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner. "

" Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. "

Edwin Louis Cole

" 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. "

" Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer. "

" Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. "

Charles Dickens

" I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing. "

George Kotsiopoulos

" 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. "

" I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town. "

" In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne. "

" I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day! "

" I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year. "

" I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. "

Richard Brautigan

" 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. "

" It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people. "

Peter Billingsley

" Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. "

" It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period. "

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" I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years. "

" 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. "

" A good conscience is a continual Christmas. "

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" I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. "

" I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. "

Olivia De Havilland

" 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. "

" What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. "

" There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. "

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" Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance. "

" At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts. "

" In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out. "

" I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection. "

" Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! "

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