ChristmasPeter Billingsley When you’re involved in those big-budget movies, there’s a lot of hype: ‘Oh this is gonna be a big hit!’ And ‘A Christmas Story’ wasn’t. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office. – Peter Billingsley Bigbudget Quotes Box Quotes Christmas Quotes Disappointment Quotes Gonna Quotes Hit Quotes Hype Quotes Involved Quotes Lot Quotes Movies Quotes Office Quotes Story Quotes I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.’ I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd. When I first heard ‘A Christmas Story, the musical,’ I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don’t, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie’s such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.
FamousMark Helprin My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated – every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young. – Mark Helprin
Peter Shaffer Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better. – Peter Shaffer
John Schneider It’s been a while since I’ve been to church, but you don’t get unborn again. – John Schneider
HealthTom Frieden Over and over, nature shows that it’s a really tough adversary. That’s why it’s important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats. – Tom Frieden
Suman Ranganathan Be it web series, short films, reality shows, what drives and keeps me in the groove is my work. – Suman Ranganathan
Dave Gibbons One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can. – Dave Gibbons
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