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 LORENLearn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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 no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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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 still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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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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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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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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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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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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