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.
SOPHIA LORENUntil you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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 don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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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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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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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