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.
SOPHIA LORENLuck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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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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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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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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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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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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