Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
SOPHIA LORENThe two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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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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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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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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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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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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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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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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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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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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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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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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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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