Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
SOPHIA LORENThe 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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