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.
SOPHIA LORENIgnorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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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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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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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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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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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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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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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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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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