Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LORENYou 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about 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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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 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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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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