"Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined."
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"I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me."
"Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!"
"I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there."
"When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is."
"I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it."
"The goal actually, is to wake up now."
"Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood."
"And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood."
"We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did."
"Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote."
"There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today."
"I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a best-selling children's author? I feel I should still be driving a truck, or (working as) a longshoreman."
"I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off."
"It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself."
"Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously."
"I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day."
"When you're an orphan, you don't wake up every day and tell yourself, "I'm an orphan again today. Why did this happen to me?" You just get on with your life. I've had other challenges that were much greater than that."
"If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still."
"Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow."