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Sue Perkins

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 22, 1969

It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.

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I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

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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.

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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.

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I came to music very young.

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Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.

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With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

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Long hair doesn't look good on me because my hair is fine.

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My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.

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It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.

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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.

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Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

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I don't look great. I'm a bit ramshackle.

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I'm not fashionable.

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I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.

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I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.

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Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of my life.

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If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

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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.

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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.

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