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 LORENIt’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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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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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And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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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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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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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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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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