Tess Gerritsen: One of the best Christmas presents I ever...

Quote	One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk. Copy
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Quote: I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.
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Kenny Baker
Category:
Christmas

I do enjoy doing...

Quote: My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.
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Author:
Michael Dirda
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My urge at Christmas...

Quote: My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.
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Author:
Alex Lifeson
Category:
Christmas

My parents got me...

Quote: I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.
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Author:
Lucy Hale
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Christmas

I was lucky enough...

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: Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
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Joe Green
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Christmas

Without social networks, you're...

Quote: 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.
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Author:
Adam Carolla
Category:
Christmas

When you have kids,...

Quote: Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
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Chris Hardwick
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Christmas

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas....

Quote: The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
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Author:
Thomas S. Monson
Category:
Christmas

The spirit of Christmas...

Quote: Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.
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Author:
Pete Rose
Category:
Christmas

Back in 1960 at...

Quote: He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
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Author:
Kyra Sedgwick
Category:
Christmas

He put a ring...

Quote: Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.
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Author:
Brian F. O'Byrne
Category:
Christmas

Certainly, nothing would stop...

Quote: Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
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Author:
David Cameron
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Christmas

Christmas gives us the...

Quote: Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
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Author:
Sylvie Meis
Category:
Christmas

Christmas really is about...

Quote: I grew up in Morocco. I was born a Muslim, and, every year, I celebrated Christmas in a big white house in the country, halfway between Meknes and Fez.
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Author:
Leila Slimani
Category:
Christmas

I grew up in...

Quote: I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.
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Author:
Charlotte Dujardin
Category:
Christmas

I turned the Gloucester...

Quote: I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
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Author:
Clarence Clemons
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Christmas

I wanted an electric...

Quote: I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet, the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men.
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Author:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Category:
Christmas

I heard the bells...

Quote: I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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Author:
Karen Robards
Category:
Christmas

I grew up with...

Quote: 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.F.
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Author:
Sionil Jose
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Christmas

November is auspicious in...

Quote: The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'
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Author:
Adriana Trigiani
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Christmas

The 'Story of Silent...

Quote: May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.
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Anonymous
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Christmas

May you never be...

Quote: We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
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Author:
Pope Paul VI
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Christmas

We consider Christmas as...

Quote: Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
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Simon Van Booy
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Christmas

Grief is a room...

Quote: I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
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Author:
Tori Amos
Category:
Christmas

I remember driving to...

Quote: 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
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Author:
Claire Tomalin
Category:
Christmas

'A Christmas Carol' has...

Quote: My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.
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Author:
Mary Berry
Category:
Christmas

My son is a...

Quote: From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
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Author:
Christie Hefner
Category:
Christmas

From the time that...

Quote: 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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Author:
Helen Hayes
Category:
Christmas

There's a little vanity...

Quote: Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
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Author:
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Category:
Christmas

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