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I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

— Sophia Loren Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979)

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984)

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

The Subtlety of Emotions (2001)

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979)

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