Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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Let your opponent show you how to defeat him
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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
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The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
