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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

Sophia Loren

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Action Believe Count One Liner
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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Face Follow Love Sex Wash
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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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
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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Believe Dedication Deserve Discipline Life Reward Sacrifice Stubborn
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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Commitment Goal Heart Honesty Sacrifice Word
A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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Dog Faith One Liner Woman
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Beautiful Learning Mindset True Yourself
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Fashion Purpose Service View Woman
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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Alone Children Herself Mom Thinking
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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Inspirational Interest Life Mistake One Liner Price
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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Act Burn Cook Gift Love Secret Share
There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Happiness Job Work Yourself
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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Interest Movie Myself
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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Anxiety Fashion Movie Myself Original Poor Profit Work
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Beautiful Eyes Material Reflection
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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Beautiful Myself Positive Sad Thinking Walk
The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Angry Build Love Man Relationship
I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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Myself Regret
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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Acceptance Beautiful Confidence Feeling Order Responsibility
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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Big Body Funny Injury Run Way
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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Acceptance Generosity Happiness Life Notice Satisfaction Yourself
I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Age Grow Up Myself Unknown
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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Age Better Discover Exploration Life Mistake Myself Play Safety Time
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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Different Difficult Feeling People Root Yourself
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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Conversation Enjoyment Life People Positive Thinking Yourself
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.
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Difficult Drive Greatness Profession Talent

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