Nadine Coyle Quotes

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

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.

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.

Misquoting drives me bananas.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

People are always misquoting me.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

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.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

Online, your quotes can now be picked up around the world, twisted, translated, and interpreted to mean the opposite of what you have actually said.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.