Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
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It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
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I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
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Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture-to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.
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In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to critics; you don't want to be in a cocoon and never change. Get a second opinion from coworkers and friends. Know that criticism can be valid, but don't take it personally.
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It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
