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Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.
- Sue Perkins
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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
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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
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Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
- Sue Perkins
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I'd really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!
- Sue Perkins
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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
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#Experience
#Live
#Responsibility
I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.
- Sue Perkins
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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.
- Sue Perkins
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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
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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
#Emotions
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#Inside
#Me
#Piano
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
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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
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I'd have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.
- Sue Perkins
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#Keeper
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Long hair doesn't look good on me because my hair is fine.
- Sue Perkins
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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
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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
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#I Am
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
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#Drink
#Red
#Three
#Wine
Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.
- Sue Perkins
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#Citizenship
#Health
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