Gerard Way Quotes
I was talking to Cecil Castellucci, who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I love talking about myself.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.
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Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.
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I was talking to Cecil Castellucci, who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!
