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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 Loren

Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Destroy Explanation Myself Transformation
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Beautiful Eyes Feeling Herself Physical Reflection
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Cook Goodness Home Love Yourself
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
The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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Appearance Drink Face Food Health Skin Wrong Yourself
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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Appearance Body Bully Myself Skin Strange
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
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Myself Quality Sex Thinking
Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Beautiful Thinking Yourself
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
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Conversation Ignorance Virtue
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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Gossip Place Talk Time Wasted Woman
You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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Dreams Fulfill Life Yourself
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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Children Compare Fact Life War
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
There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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Better Coffee Drink Forever Love Man Yourself
Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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Best Feeling Goodness Herself Make Up Skin Woman
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
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Belief Herself Inspirational Woman
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Pay
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
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
Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Action Believe Count One Liner
The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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Creation Equality Feminism Head Herself Man Woman
Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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Bad Believe Enough People Strength Weakness 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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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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