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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.

Sophia Loren

Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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Bad Believe Enough People Strength Weakness Yourself
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Born Inspirational Motivational Self Love Star Yourself
I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Skin Way
Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Help Live Person Yourself
The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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Appearance Drink Face Food Health Skin Wrong Yourself
Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Feeling Lose Mom Unknown Yourself
There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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Better Coffee Drink Forever Love Man Yourself
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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Beautiful Fun Hurt Oneself Yourself
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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Acceptance Generosity Happiness Life Notice Satisfaction Yourself
I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Appearance Myself Sex
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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Born Old Sex Time Yourself
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Fashion Purpose Service View Woman
And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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Beautiful Myself Positive Sad Thinking Walk
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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Ambition Drive Mom Myself Scare World
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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Body Lips Myself Quality Sex Thinking
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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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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Inspirational Interest Life Mistake One Liner Price
I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Enough Knowledge Language Myself Woman
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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Creation Equality Feminism Head Herself Man Woman
I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Age Grow Up Myself Unknown
Good food is a celebration of life.
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Celebration Food Goodness Instagram Captions Life One Liner
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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Children Compare Fact Life War
I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Eat Fruit Meat Myself Sweet
I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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Animal Funny Myself Walk Yourself
It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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Education Learning Mistake Yourself
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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Memories Pain Past People Person Understand Yourself
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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Load Perfection Work Yourself

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