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"What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing."
"Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed."
"I wish everyone could wake up with a birdie on your shoulder, reminding them that this could be your last day."
"My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter..."
"To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote"
"It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it."
"I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see."
"Any day you wake up, maybe you die."
"when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day."
"Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness."
"I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary."
"I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life."
"I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired."
"No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down."
"When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom."
"All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning."
"The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody."
"Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day."
"For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything."
"You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series."
