My MacBook Pro is stuck on the white page with the apple logo, spinning wheel, and a loading bar. I have waited awhile and the bar hasn't filled up. Any advice?

I've never had this problem before and I could really use some help.

I would shut it down (or force shut it down by holding the power button,) and reboot holding the command - R
and get into the Recovery.  Use the Diskutility to Repair Disk and Repair Permissions.
If errors show on Disk repair and corrected- run it again until it shows no errors found.
Relaunch as normal
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

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