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.
SOPHIA LORENAs far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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 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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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’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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be 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 a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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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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