The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
SOPHIA LORENLuck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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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 eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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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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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 a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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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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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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