Context Manipulation Quotes

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

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.

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor, because it's up to the journalist not only to understand what I'm trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process. And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context. Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it. So that isn't the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment. And then, it's out of your control.