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Sarah Doukas

lines on the record: 46
first: 2010-10-10
most recent: 2010-10-10
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I'd like to take song lines, Bruce Chatwin. Because I've read it I don't know two or three times, and I love Bruce Chatwin's work all of his work. And song lines is just fascinating. I can keep reading it and I see, you know, learn different things from it.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it might be unbelievable. I just can't imagine just being somewhere with no phones, nothing without all the craziness.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean it was just, you know, it was horrifying, shocking, and I hadn't spoken to him for months and months and months and say I went back to the office where my brother was and so he said right I'm going to ring Tim up and it was extraordinary Tim flew to London and we had a sort of meeting and all those feelings got rekindled and I mean it must have been dreadful for him. It was dreadful for all of us and dreadful for his girlfriend. But he sort of went through her pregnancy and stayed with her and very sadly for her but great for me came back to me and proposed marriage and we got married.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Uh well, you know, obviously my marriage sort of ended during that time, but I remained very friendly with my first husband. He was very good to me, and all my friends said you cannot have hope. You know, like girlfriends always do. They're just like you're crazy. He's never coming back. And then the most terrible thing happened. I was swimming before I went to work one morning as I did every day. And one of my absolute best girlfriends was standing outside the swimming pool when I came out and she said, Look, I've got to tell you something. It's the worst thing I've ever had to sell anybody. But Tim's girlfriend is now pregnant. So, you know, that's it, Sarah, you've got to move on”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it is. It must be nearly fantastic. Williams, it was a saga fluff because I'm terrible, you know, I hate change in my life, so I was very close to my first husband. It's just one of those things that wasn't right and it hasn't sort of worked for a long time. But I could never extract myself, and I met Tim sort of several times, and then we sort of started this quite intense love affair, and I was still married, so it was really difficult. And then I got pregnant, which is not ideal when you're still married to your first husband who was amazing about it, and I still couldn't extract myself, and so Tim Tim left me when I was eight months pregnant. Right.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, it's, you know, that old Modevar film my husband is mad about our mode of our film, so I'm not terribly cultured. I'm terrible. I don't often go to the movies. But when I watch that film with him, I just, that soundtrack was just, you know, I loved it. And so I listen to it all the time.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no. I mean, there's absolutely all thoughts, and I totally take that on board, and she did as well. But, you know, one lives and lands and moves on from there”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As we The thing I felt strongly about her was that regardless of any of it was the fact that Kate wasn't a sort of Hollywood actress, so she hadn't put herself out there. She'd never done interviews, she hadn't done her low. And I know, you know, she is in the public domain, so she has a duty to appoint. But on the other hand, you know, her private life is her private life, and she is just a model.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a strategic view of it. I knew. I just thought she will be fine, and I knew some of my Great clients that were huge clients to her, they stuck by and they said nowhere in your capable hands we'll stick by her, and they did”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kate was in New York, so obviously we got the press ahead of her. The main thing was that, you know, making sure she was fine and I immediately with my brother flew to America, and I basically just spent, you know, a lot of time on the phone trying to reassure her big clients that, you know. You can't believe everything you read, and also, unfortunately, all press actually is good press in this world we live in, so you know, keep calm, don't have a knee jerk reaction.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It did tumble round about me, but you know, I'm very good at dealing with stress, and the worse the situation, the calmer I get. The press are quite good. They often ring and say look, this story is coming out. What do you have to say? In this instant, no, I knew nothing.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, mother agent means that I am their main agent, I am responsible for them completely. I basically bankroll them and look after their career completely.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I think it is a toxic max. But the great thing to remember is that first of all, I care about all my models, but British girls that I have control of that I'm mother agent to. First of all, they would never go and do those shows. I probably only have three girls at any one time doing shows so I send my agents with them. It has to be controlled for me because it's a nightmare.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I just, you know, I only discovered him about eighty months ago, through my husband, who well I used to love pulp, but I never realised that Richard was impul and I was just knocked out by him”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you've got to be really careful about that, honestly. We talk to parents all of the time. And we start by doing very gentle tests of them. And sometimes they don't do any for a while. They just sit on the books and I say, look, we think you're great, but you're very young. I mean, if they've come into this agency, they're going to go into somebody else's agency. One has to be realistic about it. So I'd rather keep them with us, and I think that we're really sensible.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“American vogue with Stephen Miselle, she was travelling, it was, you know, but she was sensible enough she knew that that was an opportunity that couldn't be missed, and so she would work on the plane, and her grades were phenomenal. She got phenomenal A levels.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, I say, listen, I refuse to take them out of school during the week. With Lily she was exceptional because what happened was two things happened one was that her career went into the stratosphere very quickly. And we're talking about the”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I mean, one of my daughters is 12. It's far too young. But what we do at that age is we sort of keep them on file. They really don't work, I think, sort of fourteen is the youngest. And I'm very, I mean, my brother and I feel incredibly strongly about education. You get two different types of people. Sometimes you get parents who can be quite pushy and say, look, it's not that important. And if she's got this chance, so we have to put the brakes on with some, and others are anyway absolutely terribly reticent about their children going into this business.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's become a much more difficult job recently, but so many things. I think you've got to have a lot of empathy with young people. You've got to genuinely like people. But I think you've got to be a very strong person. You've got to be creative because if you start people before they've ever modelled, then you have to package them up beautifully. And basically, you are selling them to a client. And because it's so busy, it's very difficult to get somebody who is so driven and actually finds the young girls and boys and says rings clients and says you must see this person they'd be brilliant.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And how did you realize? Oh, it's a very strange job. Well, I think I was in California three or four years and John being the typical American musician, you know, the band sort of ended after, I don't know how many years they've been together, 10 years, and he wanted to live in England. And I wanted to live in England. So I didn't have a job and I went back to England and it was a nightmare and I was staying with a friend who's a photographer and he said you'd make a great booking agent. And, you know, I just took to it like a doctor Warsaw.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it was on spruce and arch which are streets quite sort of high up towards Grizzly Peak and it overlooked the Bay of San Francisco. And so I used to listen to sitting on the dock of the bay.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so now we've got Otis Reading. I went to live in Berkeley, in California with my first husband, who'd started this independent record label, and I lived in Berserky Records, in this sort of huge house. Berserkly records. Berserkly records in Berkeley.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I took no else she was five months old. And he'd just had a child of who was also five months old. So it was quite a bizarre situation he had these two new children, Cameron, who was three and Conrad who was five months, and then he went on and married somebody else and inherited their two children. So I had another two. But it was difficult. My father's not the sort of person you can never bring anything up with, so there was absolutely no point in talking to him about why he'd left, what had happened or what was going on. He's just one of those people that won't talk about the past. So we”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he did write letters, you know. He did write letters Well, I just had no earl, you know, my daughter and I was twenty five, and Simon had just finished school, and we talked, and we thought it would be a good idea to go and visit him. So I think without too much thought we jumped on a plane, and I remember we had a panic attack when we got about an hour short of Perth Airport. We had a panic attack at thirty nine thousand feet thinking Oh my god. And we got we both got quite distressed actually”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My life in London. Well, you know, it was just sort of, I mean, at one stage, I think I was in a sort of two bedroom flat. There were eight of us. I seem to remember sleeping on the floor and a sleeping bag for forever.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This terrible disaster, and I then I came home a lot. And it was an appalling time and everybody was deeply upset. And I looked after Simon and Emma a lot. They lived with me in London, in holidays and”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was first Yes, I know he, I think he practised his Guyne in his private life. He was a bit of a philanderer. No, he left with another doctor, a female doctor, and they went to live in Australia.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He literally, I think I was seventeen and he disappeared on a Friday and went to Australia. Simon I didn't see him for ten years.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And my father definitely did it to me. I don't think he did Simon and Emma because if he left when we were all quite young, especially when they were young. But yes, with me, he was absolutely horrified”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And now we've got Leonard Kellyn. He's just at a time in my life when it was sort of first boyfriend, first love affair, first disappointment, and, you know, it just epitomized, you know, the angst of teenage love.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He sent me to two different crammers, and then I thought I don't know what I was thinking. It was in the middle of my A levels. I think I did one or two iconing remember. It's terrible. And I thought, I've had enough. I'm going to leave. And I hitched, which was pretty foolish anyway. I hitched back up the M one with all my bags and never went back. And in fact, my father was coming home. We used to come home at lunchtime, and he picked me up, I can see his maroon jag, and took me the last literally five hundred yards to the house. And then we were having lunch, he just looked at me and said, I presume that you've left, and you haven't done your A levels. And I said Yes, I have left. Two weeks later I took off to London.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I hated writing essays and hated sitting exams, and I think it was one of those things that I find it now that I would, you know, I'd be interested in a subject and listen to things that I was interested in, and I have this horrible capacity to just totally shut off, and it doesn't stay in my brain. It just doesn't. It only retains things it's interested in, and I”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean I certainly never got pregnant. So I absolutely must have done. My father was incredibly, you know, I can remember him saying to me I was horrified at about fourteen or fifteen Well, you know I'll be putting you on the pill so you have to let me know what's going on and I was like nothing's going on how could you speak to me like that? And because my father, that was his business it must have been, forever in my mind that, you know, I would always be very sensible.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they were actually quite funny because we had loads of aunties in the house, we had lots of unmarried mothers because my mother at that stage was on the adoption society and my father obviously was a gynecologist obstetrician, so we seemed to have a lot of unmarried mothers around who'd been sort of rejected by their families because they were pregnant out of wedlock. And then I mean we inherited lots of them afterwards, so we used to have aunties when we were”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know they were very strange actually because they allowed the house was always full of people, and I always had loads of friends, and they never shoed anybody off. Why?”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, those boys smoke, but I was always quite moderate, you know, I didn't like being kind of out of it, as they say.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, that song reminds me of a sort of mad multicolored dress I had, which was way too shortened. God could I have had Terry to have land shoes on in those days I just think I might have done. But I used to wear virtually nothing on the back of these scooters how my father and mother let me out I don't know”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“the small faces fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, it's just all my early life in Yorkshire as a teenager and I had all these friends who were rushing around on scooters in their parkers with their mod haircats like Stevie Marriott.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm quite relaxed'cause my husband thinks that I'm way too liberal. I'm not liberal about drugs per se, but I mean smokes a little bit of this and everything in moderation Not everything But I did try things and do things so I'm not ridiculous with them I don't go mad and it makes them more communicative with me I mean I don't say they tell me everything but they tell me quite a lot which is good.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh a serious character a fantastic woman, very eccentric, very opinionated, funny. She'd have me up really late at night, you know, we'd be carving and stuff. I was this, you know, small child. I mean, there was no boundaries. He was just like, right, you're staying up tonight. This calf is, I can remember being out on that farm at midnight. If my parents had known they'd have been furious, she'd have been in bed at seven, you know. She was just great, I loved it.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was geographically because she was in the new forest and my prep school was in Wickham in Hampshire, and my parents moved from London. He got a job in South Yorkshire. I hated it up there, and every half term and holiday was spent on the farm with her, which was a total joy.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Quite self reliant. It's funny, I think I became very self-reliant. I think it was quite an austere period of life. So it was pretty stiff upper lip. I don't remember crying too much because I don't think it would have fallen on any sort of sensitive ears.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not the case is who you are today running a business that's got an 8 million. I know. I just think he was way too pushy and it just made me, you know, I just sort of backed off”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know whether it was because he pushed me so much from when I was little I just rebelled against it, or whether, you know, maybe I was just stupid.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, they had huge expectations. I knew I would go to private boarding school. I knew from when I could first think, so when I was sent off before my seventh birthday, in September, I was sort of six and three quarters. I mean, I was not surprised. And my father just seriously believed in a really proper education and absolutely university afterwards, and then the only professions that were acceptable to them would be law, medicine, accountancy. I mean, some, you know, a proper profession. He was just mad about education, any bad report, you know, I was in really big trouble.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was born in Malta because my father was a surgeon lieutenant in the Navy. I think I was about eighteen months old when we came back.”
2010-10-10 · Desert Island Discs · Sarah Doukas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source