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I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

— Spalding Gray

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

— Ann Curry

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

— Fred Durst

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

— Kathryn Harrison

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

— Tory Lanez

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

— Mos Def

I just live my life and do what I want to do and don't think about what is written about me.

— Caroline Wozniacki

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

— Jerry Cantrell

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

— Karl Lagerfeld

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

— Mohsin Hamid