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" Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. "

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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. "

" Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs!' 'How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?' You know? So, it's those kind of things that really wear you down. "

" I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. "

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" I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning. "

" Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. "

" I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you're obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest. "

" I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. "

" One Christmas, I wrote a nativity play. But nobody turned up on the day of the performance apart from my brother and my cousins, so I just read the whole script onstage and made my brother pretend to be one of the animals at the inn. "

" I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection. "

" Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune. "

" Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance. "

" So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie. "

" My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he'd be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again. "

" The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times. "

Frederica Mathewes-Green

" In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out. "

" I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination. "

Jewell Parker Rhodes

" I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it. "

" I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers. "

" I love all things Christmas. "

" Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights. "

" We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine. "

" My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. "

Miranda Cosgrove

" When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian. "

" I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety. "

Linda Lael Miller

" I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. "

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" South Park started as a little video Christmas card. "

" At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special. "

Kevin Richardson

" What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming. "

" I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year. "

" 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. "

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