Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
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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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.
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Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
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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.
