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I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.'


Wynton Marsalis

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NENIA CAMPBELL I want to be the reason you look at your phone when you wake up in the morning and smile
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JOE FRAZIER Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.
KATE MARA You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.
LORD LEW GRADE I told Elizabeth, 'I wish I could go back to bed and wake up and it would be a bad dream,' ... I eve...
JOE BRYANT All of the sudden I see the phone ring. I stared at it for a minute. Should I answer it? I picked it...
MIKE SELLERS If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
RUMI The way we're going, ... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.
FRANK ROBINSON I wonder what I will do if she doesn't wake up, and I don't have an answer. As I lie back down next ...
SHAY SAVAGE If there was a day i left home without coming back or i slept and i didn't wake up, just know i will...
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LYNDA CARTER I told her, just stay calm and not let it get to her.
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KATIE ASELTON One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.'...
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ERIC BERRY Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a s...
C.D. REISS I liked the fact he picked up the phone to call, ... It let me know he wanted me to be here. I said,...
BRIAN GRANT But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT I'll never forget her eyes as she sat there dying looking at me. When I sleep at night, I can see he...
CYNTHIA LEE I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
BRUCE WILLIS I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she o...
NATALIE MASSENET Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
THOMAS PYNCHON Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
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CALLEE CONDA I'll call you," he repeated.
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"You will wait b...
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