There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
SOPHIA LORENI am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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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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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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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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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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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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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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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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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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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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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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