Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
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My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.
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I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.
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The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
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Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
