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.
SOPHIA LORENPhysical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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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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.
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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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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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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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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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