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.
SOPHIA LORENGood food is a celebration of life.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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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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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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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 fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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