I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
SOPHIA LORENGetting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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