Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

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• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  

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• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

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• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

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• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

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• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

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• You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

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• The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

  

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• Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

  

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• To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

  

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• I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

  

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• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

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• There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  

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• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

  

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• There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

  

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  • Successful
  • Unsuccessful

• If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

  

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• I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

  

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  • Future
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  • Flying

• At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
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  • Moments
  • Film