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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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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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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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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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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A true athlete is someone who doesn't just stop training when they stop competing. It's a way of life, and they keep in shape just to keep up that standard.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.
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I'm not saving lives.
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In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love.
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I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
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For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
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I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
