Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
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Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
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My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.
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It's absolutely incredible, and his retirement should be a celebration more than anything else.
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I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
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The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
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For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
