Edward Furlong Quotes
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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When in doubt, do it.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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My favorite part of modeling is backstage. Every day you work with different people, and as much as people learn about my story, I get to learn about theirs.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
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As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.
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When comparing the time scales of genetic and cultural evolution, it is useful to bear in mind that we today - every one of us - can easily understand many ideas that were simply unthinkable by the geniuses in our grandparents' generation!
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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
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It's... it's such a weird thing. After Garden State, so many companies wanted to make my movies, and after The Last Kiss, I realized people would make anything I was in. As long as I keep this up I'll be swimming in chubby indie girl pussy.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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I live in L.A. Now.
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I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.
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Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'
