Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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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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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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