I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
SOPHIA LORENI have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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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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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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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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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full 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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