Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.
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Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
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I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
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After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
