A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
SOPHIA LORENLearn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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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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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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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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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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