My MacBook is stuck at the white screen with the apple logo

My MacBook was frozen so I decided to restart it but when I did it got stuck at the apple logo screen. I've tried entering safe mode but it just does the same thing I really needed my computer for a lot of things including some work so I really need help.

I was looking at this and it helped! http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
1) Disconnect, test peripheral devices and network cables - didn't work
2) Perform a Safe Boot - didn't work
3) Reset the NVRAM / PRAM - worked, yay!

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