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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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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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.
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As I remember it, the bases were loaded.
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
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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.
