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.
SOPHIA LORENBe 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.
SOPHIA LORENUntil you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
SOPHIA LORENLearn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
SOPHIA LORENLearn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
SOPHIA LORENWhere youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
SOPHIA LORENI 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.
SOPHIA LORENWithout 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 LORENI eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
SOPHIA LORENWhen 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.
SOPHIA LORENThe two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
SOPHIA LORENI am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
SOPHIA LORENGetting 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 LORENCooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
SOPHIA LORENI firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
SOPHIA LORENGood food is a celebration of life.
SOPHIA LORENIf you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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