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.
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I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
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.'
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.
It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.
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.
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