Sophie Dahl Quotes

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Sophie Dahl

Profession : Model

Birth : September 15, 1977

I've started running since I had kids, and I've become one of those annoying people who likes running.

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My grandfather loved the countryside.

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It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather than flawed humans muddling along like the rest of us.

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My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.

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I was an only child until I was six.

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My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.

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I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.

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If I had to become a food I would be a pineapple. Spiky, but quite sweet really.

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The most evocative food smell is American seaside food - tuna melts and cookie dough ice cream, or the British version, fish and chips and toffee apples.

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I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.

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At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.

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I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as much of a fan of his work as anyone.

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Central heating is my vice - I have it on a bit too much as I am always cold. I try to make up for it in other green ways.

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Modelling is a bit baffling when you're 18. I just thought, 'Brilliant - I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.' I didn't think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.

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I'm sure there were people who were disappointed that I got slimmer, but as one gets older one does often get a bit thinner. There was no great mystery: I had some puppy fat and I lost it.

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For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

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I don't want to deride London because I have such a huge affection for it, but New York lets you move on and grow up.

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I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

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I have always been tall. When I was five, I towered above all the boys in my class, so it is something I have grown up with.

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I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.

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