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!
SOPHIA LORENIf you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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.
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