I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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.
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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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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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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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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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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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