Derek Sanderson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.
-- Derek Sanderson

#Father #Talking #Years
Understand your fears and then work to conquer them.
-- Derek Sanderson

#Conquer
Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous.
-- Derek Sanderson

#Hurt #Hockey #Night
I have found that I really am different. Thereâ€™s nobody like me. And not that itâ€™s good or bad.
-- Derek Sanderson

#Different #Found #Nobody Likes Me
If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.
-- Derek Sanderson

#Fighting #Winning #Play

When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.

Derek Sanderson famous quotes

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