Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

I feel like what I say on Twitter has actually a lower rate of misinterpretation than what I say on interviews because I'm just kind of rambling on interviews, and I'm just talking, talking and talking.

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

Translation is the art of failure.

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.