Trying to exercise authority over one.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That they think they know it all.
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Erin O'Connor
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Unnecessary judgment.
I hate rich people that feel a need to tell you how hard they had it (“We had the smallest pool on the block”). And I hate poor people that feel a need to puff up their bios so they can better fit in with the rich—you meet a lot of Talented Mr. Ripleys in showbiz.
Coldness, selfishness.
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View profile →Frank Adamson, my first coach, for not spending more time with him in his later years. I feel bad about that.
As someone that loved what they did, embraced it wholeheartedly and never quit.
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
I’ve got no patience.
It makes you feel like you want to live.What is the worst job you’ve ever done? Doing the audiobook of the first book. It was hard. I couldn’t do that again.
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