Alexa Von Tobel Quotes

When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.

Alexa Von Tobel

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• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

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• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

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• I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

  

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• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

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• I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

  

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• The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

  

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• Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

  

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• When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Mind
  • School