Christmas Quotes - Page 34

• Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

  Chris Frantz

  Two, Track, Dozen

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• Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

  Christina Perri

  Song, Memories, Listening

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.

  Dave Haywood

  June, Light, July

  "Lady Antebellum Record Christmas Album" by national ledger.com, September 11, 2012.

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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.

  Alastair Campbell

  Mother, Queens, Memories

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Children, Book, Boys

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• There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

  Jerry Falwell

  Effort, Stealing

  "Controversy Lit in Boston Over 'Holiday' Tree Change". www.christianpost.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

  Julian Fellowes

  Character, Car, Special

  "More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. February 19, 2013.

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• My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

  Kary Mullis

  Mother, Brother, Giving

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage

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• Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

  Lauren Graham

  Dad, Party, Years

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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

  Writing, Years, Grandfather

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• Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

  Whitley Strieber

  Holiday, Years, Childhood

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• I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

  Andy Rooney

  Art, Feelings, Feeling Bad

  Andy Rooney (2003). “Common Nonsense”, p.38, PublicAffairs

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• The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

  Olivia Williams

  Husband, Week, Wanted

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• You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Hurt, Fall, Careers

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• I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Mom, Rain, White

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Creativity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  Whitley Strieber

  Mother, Brother, Atheist

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• The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

  Beth Henley

  Writing, School, Night

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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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?

  Ian St John

  Garden, Awards, People

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• My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

  Margot Kidder

  Tvs, Score, Grandson

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

  Bill Vaughan

  Motivational, New Year, Year End

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• I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

  Kurtis Blow

  Rap, Records, Deals

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• The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

  Johnny Vegas

  Years, Boards, Cheese

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• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Summer, Beach, Horse

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• In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

  Lloyd Kaufman

  People, Racist, World

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