Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
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One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.
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I sold gums or energy drinks on the street….. I had that life for about ten years.
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
