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" I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me. "
Gerard Way
Some People
Me
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" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "
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" There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. "
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" I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all. "
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" I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here. "
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" People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world. "
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" There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope. "
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" 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems. "
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" I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. "
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" I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman. "
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" You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday. "
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" My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch. "
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" So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. "
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" I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. "
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" The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. "
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" I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share. "
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" The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down. "
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" My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me. "
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" When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' "
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" I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it. "
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" Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. "
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