Sue Perkins Quotes

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Sue Perkins

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 22, 1969

I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.

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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.

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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.

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We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person - that's your tribe.

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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.

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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.

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You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

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My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.

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I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.

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I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.

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I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.

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Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

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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.

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I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.

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Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

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