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.
SOPHIA LORENThe most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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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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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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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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Learn 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.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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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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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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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