Sue Perkins Quotes

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Sue Perkins

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 22, 1969

I make no bones about the fact that I'm over 40.

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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.

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Parents care deeply.

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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.

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I'm very impatient.

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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.

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I'm so in love with David Dimbleby.

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You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.

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I love watching birds of prey and stags.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.

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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.

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One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

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