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I think it's one of the coolest things especially as a young actor, actually at any time - even doing my stuff with Avatar - merchandising, video games come out and action figures and plushie toys. It really ignites the kid in you.
- Dante Basco
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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
- George Lucas
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When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage.
- Joseph Gatt
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Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.
- Tom Brokaw
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Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
- Brian Sutton-Smith
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I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level - they're very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.
- James May
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The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.
- Thomas P.M. Barnett
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I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
- Jon Heder
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
- Garrett Hedlund
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Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
- Claude Vorilhon
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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
- Rick Springfield
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The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
- Brian Sutton-Smith
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I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.
- Brian Sutton-Smith
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Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.
- Brian Sutton-Smith
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
- Brian Sutton-Smith
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I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys.
- Camren Bicondova
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When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.
- Greg Lynn
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There were no toys or games when I was younger, just a football.
- Danny Ings
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I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance, school and other essentials for the baby and his mother as well as many other things, including toys and clothing.
- Robinson Cano
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
- Adam Savage
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At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play.
- Shakuntala Devi
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We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.
- Brie Larson
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In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.
- Joe Shuster
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What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.
- Henry Selick
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Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.
- Lee Unkrich
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I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.
- Rick Baker
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Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
- Stephen Baker
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If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
- David Autor
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I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.
- Michio Kaku
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When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.
- DMX
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We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.
- Willard Wigan
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
- F. Lee Bailey
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My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.
- Melania Trump
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In the 1950s, Hong Kong was a place where millions of people could go, from the mainland, to start in jobs like sewing shirts, making toys. But, to get on a process of increasing income, increasing skills led to very rapid growth there.
- Paul Romer
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The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
- Andrew Stanton
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What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside 'Star Wars' and all the other stuff and introduce today's kids to the classic monsters.
- Harry Knowles
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We all know how tough children are with toys. It turns out grownups are much worse.
- Martin Cooper
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I collect toys.
- Mika
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When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.
- Jeremiah Brent
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I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.
- Josie Bissett
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The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.
- Alison Gopnik
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Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
- Edward Zwick
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Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.
- Nick Woodman
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As a kid, I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, but I would take my cousin's My Little Pony and smell it. That weird, synthetic, fruity-sweet smell - that's how I wanted to look. I wanted to look like this fabricated toy. I wanted to look like you could pull a string on my back, and I would say, like, six catchphrases.
- Trixie Mattel
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What's interesting about the 'Smash Bros.' games, is that the 'Smash Bros.' games do not represent the Nintendo characters fighting against one another: they actually represent toys of Nintendo characters getting into an imaginary battle amongst themselves.
- Satoru Iwata
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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
- John le Carre
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
- R. A. Salvatore
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Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.
- Colin Quinn
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About tidying up a toy box, you should let your kids experience the selection process by touching all of their toys. It's also important how they throw away their toys. They can earn a stronger sense of valuing things when they throw things away with respect and appreciation.
- Marie Kondo
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
- Abdoulaye Wade
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I have a real weakness for Generation One Transformers. Only Generation One. I loved them as a kid, and I will, when I have the money, search occasionally for the toys that I could not afford but deeply desired as a child.
- Ben Peek
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Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.
- Maureen Dowd
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I'm really focused on looking at where the industry is headed and how the world is evolving. Toys really need to adapt to this new era.
- Margo Georgiadis
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Toy time is holding steady, but kids are spending more time on digital, and toys need to adapt.
- Margo Georgiadis
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Hundreds of studies of various cultures have proven that, on average, boys play more than girls with constructional toys like Lego and toy cars, and girls play more with dolls.
- Simon Baron-Cohen
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Guys never really get over their toys.
- Michael Keaton
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To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
- Michael Keaton
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My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.
- Mark Frauenfelder
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Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.
- Rodney Brooks
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Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
- Howard Rheingold
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My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
- Tracey Ullman
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I'm pretty skeptical about a lot of the toys on the market, especially for young kids. Most of them just add these new technologies just to make more flashing lights.
- Mitchel Resnick
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I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.
- Johnny Mathis
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Marvel comics took a chance on me in my youth, allowing me to create so many toys in their sandbox.
- Rob Liefeld
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I'm an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars... I've been collecting since I was a little kid.
- Biz Markie
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If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
- Steven Moffat
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I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.
- Jeff Dunham
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He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.
- Nia Long
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You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.
- Luke Scott
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You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
- Diego Della Valle
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The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.
- Jayma Mays
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The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.
- David Morrissey
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The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on.
- Jason Epstein
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I like that I make toys.
- Kim Swift
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Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'
- Kim Swift
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I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
- Ray Bradbury
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I never played with anything like toys.
- Karl Lagerfeld
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau
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I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
- Martin Yan
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In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
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'Star Wars' was everything for me. As a little kid, you get to see the movies only once or twice, but playing with the toys in your backyard, that's where you're first telling stories in your head.
- Rian Johnson
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My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn't afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, 'cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe.
- Sharon Needles
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
- Robert Burton
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
- Ferdinand Foch
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
- Laurence Olivier
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
- Aaron Neville
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The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
- Adam Savage
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The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
- Anselm Kiefer
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My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.
- Howard Graham Buffett
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Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
- Cher
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At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.
- Goran Ivanisevic
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
- John Lasseter
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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I don't pick up toys. I crush them.
- Jocko Willink
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I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
- Joan Rivers
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I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
- Don Rickles
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
- Rodney Dangerfield
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I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
- Craig McCracken
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
- T. S. Eliot
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