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" The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. "
Gerard Way
High School
School
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" What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. "
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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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" Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you. "
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" Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. "
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" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "
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" 'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. "
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" As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark. "
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" 'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. "
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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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