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As someone that loved what they did, embraced it wholeheartedly and never quit.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
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How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Sara Cox
English broadcaster
For making people’s journeys on the M6 a bit easier.
Steph McGovern
Broadcaster
As a good friend.
Randy Pausch
Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my "Last Lecture." I am told that, including abridged versions, over six million people have viewed the lecture online. The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I'm hardly unique. Send your kids to Carnegie Mellon and the other professors here will teach them valuable life lessons long after I'm gone.
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Pausch's Carnegie Mellon faculty homepage, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, 2008
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As a great songwriter.
More from Ronnie O'Sullivan
View profile →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.
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
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%.
That they think they know it all.
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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