Clue Quotes - Page 2

• We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Relax, Should

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• I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

  Peter Porter

  Mean, Years, People

  Interview with John Kinsella, www.johnkinsella.org. 1998.

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• They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Air, Half, Body

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• Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

  Robert B. Parker

  Writing, Giving, Credit

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• When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

  James Garner

  Years, Wandering Around, Littles

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• There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Kids, People, Bean Counters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

  Joey Dunlop

  Practice, Lap, Firsts

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• Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

  Cher

  Love, Funny, Break Up

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• I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

  Peggy Noonan

  Thinking, Miracle, World

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

  David Crosby

  Running, Song, Flew Up

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• I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

  Liam Neeson

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

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• The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

  Kim Novak

  Thinking, Add, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

  Len Wein

  Years, Editors, Ifs

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• Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

  Madeline Kahn

  Sex, Life After Death, Improbable

  "Fictional character: Mrs. White". "Clue", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

  Alan Rickman

  Children, Book, Phones

  "Every Snape scene in chronological order shows his anguished evolution" by Rob Dean, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery novel, and that if you can put together the clues, you can come up with one singular answer.

  Carey Mercer

  People, Together, Language

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

  Simone Elkeles

  Eyelashes, Saint, Considering

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.

  Angela Carter

  Lonely, Character, Mirrors

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

  Ross Macdonald

  Broken, Wish, Locks

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”

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• If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Spring, Winter

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• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  Dale Archer

  Real, Past, College

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• A rebel without a clue.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Rebel

  Song: Into the Great Wide Open

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• I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

  Shirley Henderson

  People, Adults, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.

  Ken Jennings

  Jesus, Boys, Names

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• At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

  Louis L'Amour

  Curves, Drawing, Structure

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