Gordon Downie quotes
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“Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!”
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“If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?”
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“I sensed she [Sarah Harmer] had this look on her face like, 'Jesus, if you can do it, I certainly can.' But I had nothing to teach her, let's put it that way.”
-- Gordon DownieSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“There seemed to be a sense about Sarah [Harmer] even back then.She was obviously a quick study. I remember going to the Harmer farmhouse and sitting around the pool, and Sarah had a guitar. Maybe I knew four chords, but she already knew five. After doing 600 gigs that week, I would sing with her in a ragged voice, and she had the voice of a bird.”
-- Gordon DownieSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.”
Source : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.67, Lulu.com
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“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”
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Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
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“I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.”
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“I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.”
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“I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.”
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“The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.”
Source : Song: Princess Olivia
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