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"I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes"

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Fuentes frames her ambition in the most disarming way possible: not as hunger for fame, but as a simple appetite for conversation. It is a strategic move that fits a media personality who came up in an era when women on camera were routinely flattened into “face” rather than “voice.” By centering “sitting down and talking,” she claims authorship over her presence: she isn’t being displayed, she’s engaging. The intimacy of the phrasing suggests talk as craft, not chatter - a reminder that interviewing is performance, yes, but also listening, calibration, timing.

The CNBC name-drop does double duty. It’s not glamour; it’s credibility. Business news carries a certain institutional seriousness, so invoking it implicitly elevates her work above the pop-culture lane people might have assumed for an actress/host. “In a way that I liked” is the quiet flex: a boundary statement about creative control. She’s telling you the opportunity mattered because it matched her temperament and standards, not because it simply existed.

Then comes the most revealing line: “develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.” That’s a reframing of error as permission. In an industry built on polish, she praises the rare workplace that allowed iteration in public, where missteps become training data instead of scandal. The subtext is mentorship without sentimentality: CNBC didn’t just hand her a platform; it normalized growth. It’s career narrative as resilience, but with the emphasis where it belongs - on the conditions that make resilience possible.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fuentes, Daisy. (2026, January 15). I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-sitting-down-and-talking-to-people-cnbc-147410/

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Fuentes, Daisy. "I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-sitting-down-and-talking-to-people-cnbc-147410/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-sitting-down-and-talking-to-people-cnbc-147410/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966) is a Actress from Cuba.

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