Quotes by Sue Perkins - Page 2

I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Caring
Nurse
Profession
Doctor
Loved
Either
Vet
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I've learnt how to develop routines. To play with each bit. To enjoy expanding on it. To get used to the stage being mine.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Expanding
Learnt
Routines
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I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Lungs
Odd
Recognition
Scream
Song
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Because I'm busy, I don't sit down to a lot of big formal meals - unless I've got mates round, in which case I'll cook something.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Formal
Mates
Meals
Round
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When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.'
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Bake
Big Hit
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I always like to think that I'm accountable for everything I do, but I'll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Accountable
Always Never Everything
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I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Marathon
Shorts
Assumed
Pair
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It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Chaos
Multiculturalism
Privilege
Witness
Cliches
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I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Fun
Silly
Want
Just
Very
Child
Always
Am
Childish
Happiest
Have Fun
Playing
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Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Cooks
Attracts
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As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I'm exactly the same as an adult.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Inability
Regard
Exactly The Same
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The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can't see how bad things are getting.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Ageing
Bad Things
Eyesight
Rate
Bad
Getting
Great Thing
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I have a freelancer's mentality: if I leave the country for more than 24 hours on a non-work trip, I believe I will never be employed again.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Employed
Mentality
Believe I Believe Will
Believe Country Will
Trip
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I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Defects
Glasses
Baggy
Happier
Hide
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I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Flying
Expressing
Outlet
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Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Brave New World
Mindset
New World
Pregnant
Conceive
Heterosexual
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Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Deny
Format
Performers
Rude
Your Me See
Photo
Me Your See
Showing
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I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most elaborate and time-consuming practical jokes I've ever done.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Enormous
Time Consuming
Elaborate
Practical
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I don't really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it's someone's birthday, I'll pretend I like red wine for about three sips.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Birthday
Red
Three
Vodka
Wine
Pretend
The One Thing
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By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if you had an entirely gay comedy.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Lasting
Entirely
Statement
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I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn't take away any of the experiences of my life.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Carefree
Hurt
Thrown
Life Love Myself
Experiences
Net
Result
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Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and those are ongoing.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Family Life
Memoir
Ongoing
Publication
Begins
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My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.
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Memoir
Definitive
Great Way
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I like '24.' But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let yourself go in that one day; you just eat crisps and wander around madly ranting.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Wander
Madly
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In Hebrew, the name Susan means 'graceful lily' - in Khmer, it means 'girl with the bad puns,' and in ancient Aztec, it translates as 'she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.'
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Ancient
Dirty
Glasses
Hebrew
Graceful
Lily
Puns
Susan
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I was an international krumper at one time. I can't talk about it, really, because when you've lived for krump like I have, when you get a bit older and you move away from it, it's hard.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
One Time
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You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Different
Taste
Vegetarian
Never
Cleaner
Fresher
Got
Grounds
Persuade
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I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Finished
Inverted
Issues
Smoke
Wander
Work Out
Alarm
Bake
Commas
Slight
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I'd like to live permanently in October 1988, when I started college. I had no responsibility and the energy to do whatever I wanted. My optimism wasn't dented by experience or low self-esteem.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Low Self Esteem
October
Self Esteem
Permanently
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I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Correspondence
Letters
Meaningful
Silly
Whimsical
Exchange
Entirely
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I made 'Heading Out' with a lot of love and surrounded myself with brilliant people who challenged me to do my best and also gave a great deal of love and support back. As a result, the experience was blissful.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Love Best Experience
Challenged
Great Deal
Heading
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You build up coming out to this horrible moment. It's so stressful, there's so much adrenaline, and there's so much primal fear - even though I know my parents to be good people - that they're going to reject you.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Adrenaline
Good People
Horrible
Primal
Stressful
Reject
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I usually like 'The Guardian' and its journalistic bent, but sometimes 'The Independent.' And if I'm being totally honest, some weekends I'll have a 'News of the Screws' or a 'Sunday Spurt.' You need high and lowbrow.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Bent
Guardian
Honest
Independent
Journalistic
News
Sunday
Totally
Weekends
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I don't understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in Copenhagen or Barcelona with a zeitgeist plate of snail porridge.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Travel
Barcelona
Copenhagen
Months
Snail
Zeitgeist
Advance
Plate
Purely
Restaurant
Suddenly
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I'd never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn't me; I didn't spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Awareness
Climbing
Everest
Leaving
Rwanda
Home Me Never
Comforts
Formative
Round
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Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Tasting
Cancers
Primary
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A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Brilliance
Conductor
Historical
Host
Melody
Absorb
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I'm desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I'd like to say to her, really calmly. I'd just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the 'her' that she pretends to be on TV with the 'her' she is as a real person.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Desperate
Hopkins
Real Person
Calmly
Few Things
Integrate
Pretends
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To those who say: 'Why pay for a gym when the outdoors is free?' I say this. In nature, there are no medicine balls. You can lie on an outsized gourd doing sit-ups, but in reality, outsized gourds are hard to come by unless you live in a farmers' market.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Balls
Farmers
Medicine
Outdoors
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I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Science
Aging
Gym
Ignorant
Improvement
Physicality
Prejudice
Resistance
Worst
Understand
Based
Fittest
Tribal
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My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Pages
Stamps
Bearing
Dad Me Will
Discover
Each One
Item
Opened
Reminded
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As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself - and I would miss the chance to seize it.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Dynamics
Forgotten
Obsessive
Chance Opportunity Me
Disappeared
Doubtless
Seize
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I have a voice inside. A voice that I am forever trying to silence. A voice that calls me in when I want to be out, playing. A voice that is always sad. That is always terrified. That always wants to sit in the darkened room, away from noise and movement and colour - away from any experience that could prove to be challenging.
Sue Perkins / Comedian
Sad
Colour
Forever
Movement
Noise
Prove
Silence
Terrified
Voice
Inside
Calls
Sit
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