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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.

Sophia Loren

True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom
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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Alone Children Herself Mom Thinking
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Myself Quality Sex Thinking
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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Exploration Life Mistake Myself Philosophy
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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Conversation Enjoyment Life People Positive Thinking Yourself
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
The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Angry Build Love Man Relationship
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 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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Believe Deep Heart Learning Value
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
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
Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Feeling Lose Mom Unknown Yourself
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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Difficult Drive Greatness Profession Talent
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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Interest Movie Myself
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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Age Defeat Fountain Learning Love Mindset People True Yourself Youth
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

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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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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