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 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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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 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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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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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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Good food is a celebration of life.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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