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.
SOPHIA LORENBe 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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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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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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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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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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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.
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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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