Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy 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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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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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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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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