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.
SOPHIA LORENBeauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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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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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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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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