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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Quotes by Sophia Loren
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. I was also born old. And illegitimate. But 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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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions. I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
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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 was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. 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. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Posted by: Sonia Rendina
All that you see I owe to spaghetti.
from the book "Sophia Loren: A Life in Pictures" by Dherbier Yann-Brice