Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
SOPHIA LORENThe first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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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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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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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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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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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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