Cote de Pablo Quotes

Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.

Cote de Pablo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: November 12, 1979

Topics

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It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.

Max von Sydow

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Driving a tractor never appealed to me. But I never wanted to go into business. Had I not accidentally fallen into acting, I would probably have gone home from college and farmed.

Michael Beck

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People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

John Sununu

HomeworkMeasureSpecialCompliance

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Sun Tzu

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What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

Ruth Reichl

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I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

Michelle Kwan

GoodMorningMeLuckWishesShe

Without Deborah Harry, there's no Madonna; there's no Lady Gaga and beyond. There was something that she did that was very new and powerful in pop, and she was responsible for a change in the way the world acted.

Luke Davies

ChangeWorldLadyPowerfulNewWay

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Milan Kundera

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I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

Jay Kay

NowRightStageLittleGetKnee

This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.

Dennis Farina

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Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Dennis Prager

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