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"[first lines; looks at dead Marley] Yes. Quite dead...as a doornail."
"Stop! Back away, praddock! [removes two coins from Marley's eyes] Tuppence is tuppence."
"Bah! Humbug!"
"[as Marley's ghost appears] How now! What do you want with me?!"
"Let me hear one word out of you, Cratchit, and you can keep Christmas by losing your situation!"
"[after Marley scared him from the knocker] Ha! Balderdash!"
"Jacob, tell me no more. Speak comfort to me, Jacob."
"Leave me. Take me back. Haunt me no longer!"
"[while the Ghost of Christmas Present is dying] Have they no refuge?! No resource?!"
"There is nothing on this Earth more terrifying to me than a life doomed to poverty."
"I've, uh...come to dinner. [pause] If you'll have me."
"You will be haunted by three spirits."
"Expect the first tomorrow when the bell tolls one."
"Look to see me no more."
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past."
"Rise and walk with me."
"Enter, Scrooge."
"You have never seen the likes of me before?"
"Peace on Earth. Good will toward men."
"[last words] They are mens. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both."
"Well yeah, my ambition was to stay true to the original piece, and I think horror is a dangerous word to use these days because it conjures up images of horror movies."
": Robert Zemeckis"
"Jim Carrey - Ebenezer Scrooge and the 3 Christmas Spirits"
"Gary Oldman - Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, and Tiny Tim (motion capture only; Ryan Ochoa provides the voice)"
"Colin Firth - Fred"
"Bob Hoskins - Mr. Fezziwig and Old Joe"
"Robin Wright Penn - Belle, Fan Scrooge"
"Cary Elwes - Dick Wilkins, Mad Fiddler, Businessman #1, Guest #2, Portly Gentleman #1, and Destitute Man #2"
"Steve Valentine - Undertaker, Topper"
"Julene Renee-Preciado - Adult Want"
"Fionnulla Flanagan - Mrs. Dilber"
"Kerry Hoyt - Adult Ignorance"
"Molly C. Quinn - Belinda Cratchit"
"Ryan Ochoa - Tattered Caroler, Beggar Boy, Young Cratchit Boy, Ignorance Boy, Young Boy with Sleigh, Tiny Tim"
"Daryl Sabara - Undertaker's Apprentice, Tattered Caroler, Beggar Boy, Young Cratchit Girl, Want Girl"
"Lesley Manville - Bob Cratchit's wife"
"Fay Masterson - Martha Cratchit, Guest #1, Caroline"
"Ron Bottitta - Tattered Caroler, Well-Dressed Caroler"
"Jacquie Barnbrook - Mrs. Fezziwig, Fred's Sister-in-Law, Well-Dressed Caroler"
"Paul Blackthorn - Guest #3, Businessman #2"
"Julian Holloway - Fat Cook, Portly Gentleman #2, Businessman #3"
"Michael Hyland - Guest #4"
"Leslie Zemeckis - Fred's Wife"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.