Ronnie O'Sullivan
English snooker player
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Everything’s temporary, and how to make aioli.
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