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" 'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical. "
Jessie Mueller
Love
Kind
Christmas
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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. "
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" I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. "
Shirley Temple
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" There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me. "
Leon Redbone
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" I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything. "
Johann Lamont
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" One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock! "
Mac DeMarco
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Christmas
Great
" My favorite part was when my grandfather and I would make a special trip to Firpo's Bakery for red and green Christmas cookies and fruitcake studded with the sweetest cherries I've ever tasted. Usually Firpo's was too expensive for our slim budget, but Christmas mornings they gave a discount to any children who came in. "
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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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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Night
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" I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson. "
Whitley Strieber
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" I'm the youngest of three boys, and my oldest brother was super into Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and played guitar. I wanted to be like him, so I asked for a guitar of my own for Christmas in '93. "
Kyle Mooney
Own
Brother
Christmas
" A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed. "
Paul Engle
Christmas
Air
Place
" Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials. "
Dan Savage
Christmas
Family
Life
" My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there. "
Sebastian Roche
Christmas
Environment
Life
" I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. "
David Lynch
Christmas
You
Tree
" We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures. "
Tom Hodgkinson
People
Christmas
Dance
" Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. "
Edna Ferber
Feeling
Season
Christmas
" You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier. "
Bill Callahan
You
Know
Waiting
" Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. "
Washington Irving
Flame
Christmas
Charity
" In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.' "
Sylvia Plath
Winter
Christmas
Remember
" My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast. "
Karamo Brown
Family
Love
Fruit
" When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much. "
Adam Carolla
Life
Start
Christmas
" Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. "
Mira Nair
Christmas
You
Feel
" 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
" As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer. "
Jessie Mueller
Tools
You
Actor
" My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old. "
Mike Shinoda
Old
Christmas
Like
" Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses. "
Kourtney Kardashian
Christmas
Party
Mess
" 'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Alone
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Me
" You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas. "
Elliott Abrams
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Christmas
Celebrate
" Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.' "
Sloane Crosley
Name
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Frustration
" When I was a kid and Christmas was coming up, my dad would ask me what I wanted, and I always said a motorbike. I kept asking for one, and he said it was too dangerous and bought me a go-kart instead. "
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" When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge. "
John Rocha
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Me
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