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The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
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South Park started as a little video Christmas card.
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I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
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I love all things Christmas.
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I make personal appearances around the country. I’m starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I’m doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
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I’m so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
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When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.
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My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
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Music is my thing. It’s my thing it’s what I love. It’s what I do. It’s football to me it’s Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.
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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.
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Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
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I’ve been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.
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I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can’t louse it up.
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I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There’s more of an edge.
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It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.
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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.
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It’s fun when you start a movie, because it’s kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.