Offbeat Quotes

• It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'

  Breckin Meyer

  Hate, Reading, Character

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

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• I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

  Andy Samberg

  Stupid, Immature, Pay

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• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  Beck

  Thinking, Trying, Boring

  "New Again: Beck". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

  William S. Burroughs

  People, Neat, Suburbs

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• I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.

  Christopher Meloni

  Thinking, Done, Stuff

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• I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

  Lucy Hale

  Summer, Makeup, Movie Love

  "'Pretty Little Liars' star Lucy Hale wants 'A' to be a 'Bonnie and Clyde Thing'" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. December 03, 2012.

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• I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

  Mischa Barton

  Character, Dark, Quirky

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

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• There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

  Nick Park

  Film, Australian, Seems

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• Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

  Bob Costas

  Humorous, Should Have, Quirky

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• I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

  Anna Friel

  Different, Roles, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

  Christian Slater

  Running, Baby, Kids

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

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• There is always some madness in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• The greatest thing you'll ever learn
  Is just to love and be loved in return.

  Eden Ahbez

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Song: 'Nature Boy'". 1948.

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• Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

  Biz Stone

  Running, Creativity, Creative

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Love You, People, Interesting

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• Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Cost, Television

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• I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!

  Nikki Sixx

  Daughter, Dad, Halloween

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies - my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like Fargo.

  Courteney Cox

  Dark, Taste, Teeth

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

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• You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.

  Bipasha Basu

  Hero, Relax, Doe

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• Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Design, Style

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• I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mom, Baby, Adventure

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• I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Yummy, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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