Sophie Dahl

Model

1977-09-15

Quotes by Sophie Dahl

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

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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 remember being home alone when I was about 13 and making a souffle from a recipe in one of my mother's old cookbooks. I approached it in a very unafraid way, and produced a rather beautiful one.

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• It is hard finding clothes that fit. At the German Vogue shoot most of the clothes were undone at the back.

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

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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 should be allowed to be voluptuous or scrawny of my own volition, without people going on about it.

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• When I modeled, my name always came with a preface: 'the voluptuous Sophie Dahl.' I was the anti-waif, as round as a Rubens.

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• I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

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• 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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