Gerard Way Quotes
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Girls run the world.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.
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We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.
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I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.
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And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
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It is not a band. It is an idea.
