Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
SOPHIA LORENPhysical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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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 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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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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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 firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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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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When 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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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