It's got to be a drag just getting up in the morning.

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Though he's a guy who so hates getting up in the morning that his wife has to phone to make sure he hasn't slept through his wake-up call, Boies bounds through a day that begins at 5:30 with the three morning news shows, continues through legal and political strategy meetings and ends with an appearance on Nightline.

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"It's getting back into getting up at six in the morning and getting down to the lake and it's going to be a shock to the body having to do it every single day for the next few months, " he added.

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For four years he presented Start the Week on Radio Four before deciding that he didn't like getting up that early in the morning.

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"It was getting more difficult to get up in the morning, " he says.

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She puts it on her bedside table alongside a daylight simulation lamp and sets them both to come on in the morning to help her gradually wake up and then feel like getting out of bed.

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