Clue Quotes

• It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Falling In Love, Sex, Real

  Interview with Winston Leyland on 1973. "Conversations with Christopher Isherwood". Book edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, p. 106, 2001.

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• You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, People, Best Short

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• My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

  Jessica Alba

  Funny, Confidence, Looks

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• In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

  David Bohm

  Science, Men, Microcosm

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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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• 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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• I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

  Jean M. Auel

  Writing, Historical, Fiction

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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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• 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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• Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Stories, Might

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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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• 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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• The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

  Antonia Fraser

  Photography, Book, Friendly

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• 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've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

  Anne Tyler

  Class, Literature, Levels

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.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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• Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

  Cher

  Love, Funny, Break Up

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

  Joey Dunlop

  Practice, Lap, Firsts

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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 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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• Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Trying, Events, Remember

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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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• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Lying, Needs, Development

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