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.
SOPHIA LORENI still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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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 was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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 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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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