I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
SOPHIA LORENWhen 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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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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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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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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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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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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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