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.
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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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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