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• If you want to be in this business [acting], do it for the right reasons. Don't be in it because you want to be a celebrity. Be in it because you really love the work, and the work keeps you up at night, and it keeps you motivated, and it wakes you up early in the morning because you have ideas.

  Rockmond Dunbar

  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• It's like you are dreaming, and then somebody wakes you up and says, "Wake up, this is true!" You always look back, thinking that maybe they meant to call someone else. But, when life gives you the opportunity to go through something like this, you better make the most of it and enjoy it and have fun. This doesn't happen every day.

  Elena Anaya

  Dream, Fun, Opportunity

  "Elena Anaya Interview THE SKIN I LIVE IN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2011.

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• The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Distance, Goal, Way

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Use your life to wake you up.

  Pema Chodron

  Positive, Use

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.127, Shambhala Publications

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• Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

  Dimebag Darrell

  The End Of The Day, Tunes, Chill

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• I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dark, Glasses, Light

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• Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Kind, Crisis, Be Good

  "Ryan Reynolds Still Not Over Scarlett Johansson Divorce". www.aceshowbiz.com. May 27, 2011.

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• all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is braking its early morn the taxi waiting he blowing his horn already i am so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.

  John Denver

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

  Mira Grant

  Queens, Sleep, Silence

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• Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baby, Pain, Sleep

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• Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Morning, Heart, Character

  www.jenniferweiner.com. May, 2002.

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• One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else?

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Nice, Ego

  Cassandra Clare (2017). “City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

  Malcolm X

  Strong, Coffee, Sleep

  Malcolm X's Speech at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference in Detroit, Michigan, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.

  Rick Riordan

  Gloves, Rubber, Aprons

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. March 5, 2009.

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• God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sleep, Knives, Trying

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• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Want, Necks

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• Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot. 'I just wanted to wake you up', he said. Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Hands, Racing

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• Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

  Oswald Chambers

  Morning, Prayer, Today

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• Trying to wake you,” Bones answered crisply. “I cut you, threw water on you, slapped you, and set a lighter to your legs. For future reference, which one of those do you think worked?” “Good God,” I hissed. “No wonder I thought you were Death incarnate in my dream, and that made me run toward Gregor at first!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Running, Dream, Cutting

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Destined For an Early Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

  John Guare

  Voice, Imagination, Trying

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• You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Philosophy, Memorable

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• I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Long, Bored, Waiting

  Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it".

  Charlaine Harris

  Children, Men, Long

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family”, p.121, Penguin

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• Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Path

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

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• Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Breathing, Soul, Bumps

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