Christmas : (35)

" Christmas movies, it’s a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real. " - Peter Baynham

" My dad’s a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we’d always have a couple of his elderly patients over for lunch. " - Alexander Armstrong

" The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays. " - Blake Lively

" In my experience, American office Christmas parties mean that everyone gets a thimbleful of lukewarm Champagne in a plastic cup. " - Bari Weiss

" Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible. " - Lauren Graham

" Christmas is my favorite holiday as I have been blessed to have a large and loving family, where the holidays is the time we all gather and create special moments. " - Quincy Brown

" I just think Christmas is a time to embrace all the naughty little things. " - Jade Thirlwall

" Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play. " - Maya Angelou

" My mom would always over decorate the house to the point where she’d switch like soap dispensers and all the towels. We would blow fuses in our house all the time because we have too many lights going on and I just feel like we did Christmas right around the Bristowe residence. " - Kaitlyn Bristowe

" Isn’t that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read. " - Wayne Swan