The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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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%.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
Some of the neuroses of my 20s. I knew I had a great talent, but I thought it was unmarketable because I felt ugly.
I would have been better with money.
I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.
I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
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.
I’ve got no patience.
That they think they know it all.
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
As someone that loved what they did, embraced it wholeheartedly and never quit.
Frank Adamson, my first coach, for not spending more time with him in his later years. I feel bad about that.
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