Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.
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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
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Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.
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Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
