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• I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.

  Louise Erdrich

  Drawing, Names, Design

  "Louise Erdrich's War of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• Alec Guinness classed up that movie [Star Wars]. Nobody else in that movie knew how to act. Nobody else had a clue of what they were doing. The young guy was a complete loss, absolutely couldn't act his way out of a bag, but Alec Guinness carried that movie. He was such a class act that it elevated the film to be a joy to watch.

  David Crosby

  Stars, War, Loss

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Director Liza Johnson Kibitz ‘Elvis and Nixon’". Interview with Carole Di Tosti, blogcritics.org. August 8, 2016.

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• I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

  Robert Redford

  Art, War, Book

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.

  Caroline Rhea

  Thinking, Rooms, Remember

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• I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

  Dick Van Dyke

  "90-year-old Disney Legend’s Secret To Marrying A (Much) Younger Woman". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com.sg. October 3, 2016.

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• You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.

  Susan Jeffers

  Depression, Powerful, Self

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.48, Random House

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• The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

  David Rumelhart

  Education, Trying, Detectives

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• I don't have a clue why I'm famous, either. But I didn't make myself famous. I'm not doing it; you are doing it.

  Nicole Richie

  Women

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• I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.

  Alexander Fleming

  Science, Fate, Discovery

  "Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual". Book by Joseph Sambrook, Vol. 1, 153, 2001.

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• Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Happiness, Cousin, Appearance

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Manservant and maidservant”

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• Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Lessons, Stay Focused

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• Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.

  Nikola Tesla

  Success, Running, Science

  "Tesla Says Edison Was an Empiricist". The New York Times, October 19, 1931.

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• Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That’s a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it.

  Joe Vitale

  Way, Should, Findings

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• I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

  John Wesley

  Art, College, Quintessential

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• I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Memories, Watches, Scripts

  "A funny five minutes with Marcus Brigstocke". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 21, 2010.

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• This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Reality, World, Illusion

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I’d like to discover life. Quite frankly I don’t know how to be happy. I have not a clue. I only serve — and I don’t say that with any grandeur. I just serve others through entertaining. That’s when I am happy. I’m not just delighted with myself when I’m entertaining, but I’m happier than when I’m not.

  Elaine Stritch

  How To Be Happy, Entertaining, Grandeur

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• History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mean, Men, Self

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• The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

  Tom Waits

  Truth, Talking, Folks

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• In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Europe, America, Cost

  "All (Green) Thumbs". www.nationalreview.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.

  Amanda Bynes

  People, Insane, Mouths

  "Amanda Bynes and the crass media treatment of 'troubled starlets" by Hannah Jane Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2013.

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• Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

  Dave Barry

  Fathers Day, Mother, Passion

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• If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.'

  Michael Showalter

  Mom, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, start allowing. We have no clue what we can be when you stop forcing and start being.

  Kyle Cease

  Life, Art, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Kyle Cease from Mar 14, 2013

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