Sophie Dahl Quotes

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Sophie Dahl

Profession : Model

Birth : September 15, 1977

I grew up with my grandfather, so I knew him really, really well. He was funny and opinionated and wonderful. He was fascinated by things and always curious.

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I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

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When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

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Some people get fat when they're miserable; certainly this was true of my teenage self, but as an adult, deliver me a week of extreme stress and misery and watch me disappear.

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I can't eat at all when I get sad; all I want is soup and easy-to-swallow baby food and, of all things, jelly babies.

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On my raw food diet, my skin shone bright like a gilded deity and my eyes glowed in a somewhat unearthly manner.

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That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

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In my family, we were all rather plump as teenagers.

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I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

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It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

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I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.

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I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

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It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

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Feminism is so pertinent - it affects all of us. As a woman you have an instinct to question sexual politics, we have a responsibility to care.

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I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.

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My relationship with food has always been uncomplicated.

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How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

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My modeling career was really just a long accident - one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.

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None of the sample sizes ever fit me at the photo shoots. One would think that would've made me want to lose weight, but I just got rounder.

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