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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

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Christmas,

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Charles Dudley Warner
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Category: Christmas

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
  • 2. If children are not introduced to music at an early age I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
  • 3. Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

2 Amazing

  • 1. You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
  • 2. Working with amazing people you continue to learn and develop yourself as an actor and as a person.
  • 3. Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

3 Anger

  • 1. If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?
  • 2. Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
  • 3. Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 2. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. One of my favorite vacation places is Miami because of the people the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
  • 2. Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
  • 3. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
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