A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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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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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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