Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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By and by an obscure individual, a young man, rose up, and, in the midst of all Christendom, proclaimed the startling news that God had sent an angel to him;... This young man, some four years afterwards, was visited again by a holy angel.
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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I've had the struggles; I've had emotional times, boring times, fun times, passionate times.
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I say this all the time, but when I go to bed at the end of the day, and I put my head down on the pillow, I really feel such a sense of satisfaction, and I'm so proud of my kids that they have this amazing work ethic, and we get to work with each other every day, so it doesn't get any better than that.
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The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan -
All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
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Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for change.
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
