If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
SOPHIA LORENA woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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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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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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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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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’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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