Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
SOPHIA LORENI’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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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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Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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