I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
SOPHIA LORENWithout 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Getting 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.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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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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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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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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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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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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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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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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