Gerard Way Quotes
I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.
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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
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Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
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I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
