Alex Toth Quotes
I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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I think the character of Superman may be the greatest fictional creation of modern times, and working on the book is for me a sacred trust. I'm just doing my best not to disappoint!
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New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.
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Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
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I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.