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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.

Sophia Loren

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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Act Burn Cook Gift Love Secret Share
You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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Dreams Fulfill Life Yourself
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Born Myself People Wisdom
Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Help Live Person 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
If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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Different Difficult Feeling People Root Yourself
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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Brain Learning Need Yourself
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
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Advantage Big Born Myself Poverty Wisdom
There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Happiness Job Work Yourself
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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Appearance Body Bully Myself Skin Strange
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
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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Alone Attitude Myself Wait Walk Wonderful
I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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Gossip Place Talk Time Wasted Woman
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom

Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.

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