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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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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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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To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'
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Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.
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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
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I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.
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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.
