Sue Perkins Quotes

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Sue Perkins

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 22, 1969

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.

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I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

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Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can't say to humans.

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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.

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Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.

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I don't want my life to just be about me.

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A good 'Bake Off,' for me, is just about cakes and nice people - and that's a successful show.

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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.

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I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.

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People have tried to glam me up over the years, but it just doesn't work.

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Let's face it: I'm not a looker. I'm a scruff. But I have embraced my scruffiness. We're happy together.

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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.'

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I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.

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I hate recipes.

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I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

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