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Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.
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The most challenging roles were Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Mars Needs Moms' because they were both motion capture, so there was a lot of physical work involved.
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A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
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Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.
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We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
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I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.
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Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
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Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.


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I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.


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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.


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Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.


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Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.


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There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
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Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
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