Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• Satisfied
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• 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.

  

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• I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

  

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• I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

  

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• I can't drink anything but chocolate. I don't even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.

  

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• I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.

  

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• Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.

  

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• This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

  

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• I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

  

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• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  

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• You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.

  

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• You have to invent life.

  

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• I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

  

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• Diantha came so close to saying she would do whatever Patricia wanted, anything at all. And then it hit her: She was being Trickstered. She’d been this close to becoming a slave to her former best friend. Diantha backed away, almost tipping over a teak side table full of drinks.

  

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• The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

  

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• If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.

  

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• I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.

  

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• You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Stills
  • Accepting
  • Satisfied