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.
SOPHIA LORENStyle must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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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 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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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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 can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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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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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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