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.
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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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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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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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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 am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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