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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Sophia Loren

Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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Ambition Drive Mom Myself Scare World
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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Appearance Body Bully Myself Skin Strange
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Conversation Ignorance Virtue
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Exercise Grace Street Walk Yourself
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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Inspirational Interest Life Mistake One Liner Price
And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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Beautiful Myself Positive Sad Thinking Walk
I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
SOPHIA LOREN

Animal Funny Myself Walk Yourself
Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
SOPHIA LOREN

Beautiful Brain Forget Learning Need Powder Yourself
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Belief Herself Inspirational Woman
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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Children Compare Fact Life War
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.
SOPHIA LOREN

Best Carry Curiosity Energy Interest Live Necessary Willing Yourself
Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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Alive Forget Myself Remember Thinking Wonderful
I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Appearance Myself Sex
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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Born Old Sex Time Yourself
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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Act Burn Cook Gift Love Secret Share
Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
SOPHIA LOREN

Destroy Explanation Myself Transformation

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

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