Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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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’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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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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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 still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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 do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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