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I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

I don't have the best track record with quotes.