When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
SOPHIA LORENThe most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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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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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.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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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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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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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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