I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
SOPHIA LORENIf you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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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 two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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 do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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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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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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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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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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