Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Sophie Dahl

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English model Sophie Dahl.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sophie Dahl is an English author and former fashion model. Her first novel was published in 2003, The Man with the Dancing Eyes, followed by Playing With the Grown-ups in 2007. In 2009 she wrote Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, a cookery book with recipes that were recreated for a six-part BBC 2 series, The Delicious Miss Dahl. In 2011 her cookery book, From Season to Season was published, and her first children's book, Madame Badobedah, was published in 2019. She is the granddaughter of author Roald Dahl.

English - Model | Born: September 15, 1977

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I have a great deal of admiration for my mum.

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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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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 think with girls you have a real responsibility in terms of how you discuss the physical. Talking about your looks or body in a derogatory way doesn't do them any favours.

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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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There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.

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When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.

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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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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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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 size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of 17 or 18 you don't.

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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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I'd love to master another language properly.

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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 was an only child until I was six.

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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 wish my grandparents were around to see my children.

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My grandfather loved the countryside.

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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 know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

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

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When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.

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I love cooking fish pies.

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

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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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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 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 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 always had boyfriends, whether I was skinnier or rounder.

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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'm doing what I've always wanted to do: being a mum, writing, living in the country, having a happy time.

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My mother tells this joke about how when I was little I used to say, 'Mummy, all I want is a stable home!' and she'd reply, 'That's all right, darling, we'll buy you a stable.'

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Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.

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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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My childhood was such an odd one, but with such magic, and the quirky grown-ups who were in it managed to still bring a huge sense of love and magic, so for that I'm really grateful.

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Because I cook a lot, I wanted to write a recipe book, really incorporating the message that you don't have to starve yourself to be reasonably skinny.

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

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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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Starving isn't sexy. What's sexy is a healthy appreciation for food.

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

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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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I have nothing against a good facelift.

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

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I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.

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

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I come from a family of greedy food lovers.

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I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.

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My grandmother is really awful sometimes.

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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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There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.

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

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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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