As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
SOPHIA LORENSometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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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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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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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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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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