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"For once in my life maybe I ought to actually think about taking God at His word, and in doing so to suddenly find myself riotously welcoming the rather shocking reality that Christmas is truly everything that He says it is."

"And so this is Christmas...what have you done?"

"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi."

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

"I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing."

"I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn."
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"At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped-and I haven't had a cigarette since."

"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."

"I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time."

"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."

"I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me."
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