Sophie Dahl Quotes

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Sophie Dahl

Profession : Model

Birth : September 15, 1977

My younger sister, Clover arrived three days before my seventh birthday and I wanted to sell her. I'd had my mother, stepfather, and nanny Maureen, all to myself, and suddenly there was this bonny baby with green grass eyes that everyone adored.

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I go out to dinner occasionally and that's the sum of my dating life.

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When you meet someone who really sees you, it gives you the emotional freedom to pursue your dreams.

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I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.

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There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.

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My mother, all of her sisters and my siblings all went through a stage from the age of about 15 to 19 where they widened and then lengthened. Had I not been modelling, that would have been a phase that was in a family photo album rather than in Vogue.

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I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.

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So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!

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I love cooking fish pies.

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I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.

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I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.

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My siblings and I had a loving but very chaotic and muddled childhood, and as a result we have sought out lives that are consistent and stable, domestic and happy.

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I didn't finish my A-levels so there was always a part of me that wanted to be taken seriously.

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I didn't like being a model. It feels weird to stand in your knickers in front of people you aren't married to.

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I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper felt like an announcement that I was home.

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I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

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I always had boyfriends, whether I was skinnier or rounder.

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I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.

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I have become that middle-aged woman who listens to the 'Hamilton' soundtrack in my kitchen.

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I'm always either listening to 'Hamilton,' which makes me cry, or Giggs, who makes me laugh.

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