Sophie Kinsella: My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book...

Quote	My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since! Copy
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Quote: Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
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Author:
Richard Lamm
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Christmas

Christmas is the time...

Quote: 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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Author:
Alastair Campbell
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Christmas

May I share with...

Quote: Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
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Author:
Ellen DeGeneres
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Christmas

Nothing says holidays, like...

Quote: I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.
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Author:
Paula Pell
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Christmas

I'm a big hit...

Quote: I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.
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Author:
Muddy Waters
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Christmas

I got up one...

Quote: I've got my organic veg patch and fruit; we're very garden-obsessed, my husband and I. He designed a garden for me for Christmas, so beautiful! Alasdhair's very good at the proportion and ground work, and I come in and do the planting and the color scheme.
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Author:
Stella McCartney
Category:
Christmas

I've got my organic...

Quote: When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.
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Author:
Jane Lynch
Category:
Christmas

When I was a...

Quote: Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.
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Author:
Frank Abagnale
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Christmas

Christopher Walken and Nathalie...

Quote: Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me.
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Author:
Naomi Alderman
Category:
Christmas

Traditions are always puzzling...

Quote: I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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Queen Latifah
Category:
Christmas

I've been giving back...

Quote: If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
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Author:
Al Jourgensen
Category:
Christmas

If you had a...

Quote: Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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Author:
Victor Borge
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Christmas

Santa Claus has the...

Quote: I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.
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Author:
Robert Osborne
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Christmas

I think 'Elf' is...

Quote: We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.
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Author:
Peter Capaldi
Category:
Christmas

We don't consider the...

Quote: I write songs all the time. Sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that I sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about Christmas or New York.
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Author:
James Murphy
Category:
Christmas

I write songs all...

Quote: I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.
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Author:
Scotty McCreery
Category:
Christmas

I wanted to have...

Quote: Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.
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Author:
James Lankford
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Christmas

Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas...

Quote: When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
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Author:
Tony Visconti
Category:
Christmas

When I was five...

Quote: I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.
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Author:
Jane Lynch
Category:
Christmas

I've been in Chicago...

Quote: It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
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Author:
Julie Burchill
Category:
Christmas

It may be a...

Quote: Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.
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Author:
Michael Dirda
Category:
Christmas

Back in the 1950s...

Quote: I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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Author:
Charles Dickens
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Christmas

I will honor Christmas...

Quote: I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.
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Author:
Martin Freeman
Category:
Christmas

I've always loved Christmas...

Quote: I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas... Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!
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Author:
Eric Stonestreet
Category:
Christmas

I like day-after-Christmas omelets,...

Quote: In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
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Author:
Jeff Miller
Category:
Christmas

In our open society,...

Quote: Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.
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Author:
Jay Samit
Category:
Christmas

Every product you have...

Quote: I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?
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Author:
Jay Asher
Category:
Christmas

I had written a...

Quote: Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.
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Author:
Bradley Wiggins
Category:
Christmas

Things change; your priorities...

Quote: If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Harold & Kumar' movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer.
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Author:
Hayden Schlossberg
Category:
Christmas

If you look at...

Quote: When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.
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Author:
Dee Rees
Category:
Christmas

When I first came...

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