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My films are completely offbeat.
Shoojit Sircar /
Offbeat
Films
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Before me, there was no offbeat flow.
E-40 / Rapper
Flow
Offbeat
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I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.
Mischa Barton / Film Actress
Quirky
Character
Dark
Offbeat
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My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.
Mark Frost / Novelist
Offbeat
Point Of View
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I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
Beck / Musician
Boring
Offbeat
Thinking
Trying
Boring Thing
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Be it commercial or offbeat, I want to establish myself as an actress.
Raashi Khanna /
Offbeat
Establish
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I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
Ari Graynor / Actress
Quirky
Classic
Offbeat
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I like to write on anything that is intriguing, unheard of - something that is offbeat.
Mukul Dev /
Intriguing
Offbeat
Unheard
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I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.
Mark Cuban / Businessman
Inspiring
Success
Business
Advice
Offbeat
Rarely
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We're thrilled to play an offbeat place. Our music fits with it. I love playing unusual venues.
Taylor Goldsmith /
Offbeat
Unusual
Venues
Fits
Our Music
Thrilled
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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 / Novelist
Neat
Offbeat
People
Suburbs
Attracted
Some People
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There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
Nick Park / Director
Australian
Film
Offbeat
Psyche
Slightly
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I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.
Caroline Thompson /
Offbeat
Stories
Writer
Anything Else
Be Happy
Labeled
Happy Know Be Happy
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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 / Actress
Chosen
Different
Offbeat
Roles
Way
Always Way Things
Different Roles
Incredibly
Way Always Things
Limited
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Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.
Steve Morse / Guitarist
Offbeat
Singers
Subtle
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I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
Ashleigh Murray /
Deeds
Offbeat
Princess
Love Always More
Disney
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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 / Actress
Glamour
Makeup
Movie Love
Offbeat
Summer
Clothing
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I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
Jason Blum / Film Producer
Insidious
Offbeat
Gotten
Studio
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
Zuleikha Robinson /
Mold
Offbeat
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'Ratboy' is an offbeat film with a lot of comments to make about human values. But, because it's offbeat, it doesn't have an obvious market.
Sondra Locke /
Human Values
Obvious
Offbeat
Comments
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I have always tried to make life interesting for myself by doing different roles that connect mainstream cinema with its offbeat counterpart.
Urmila Matondkar /
Offbeat
Life Myself Always
Counterpart
Different Roles
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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 / Actor
Kids
Running
Baby
Burning
Offbeat
Weird
Save
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I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
Louis C. K. / Comedian
Movie
Actors
Crazy
Laughed
Littles
Offbeat
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Actresses do glamorous roles, and then, after 10 films, they do an offbeat one. But Alia didn't do that. She picked films like 'Highway' and 'Udta Punjab,' too.
Soni Razdan /
Glamorous
Offbeat
Highway
Picked
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It seems like the world's major cities are getting more and more homogenized, so I think it's important to go off-road and find treasures in offbeat destinations.
Cynthia Rowley / Fashion Designer
Offbeat
Destinations
Homogenized
Treasures
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When Thug hears a song, he knows how the whole shape of the thing goes. He can nudge the whole frame to the left to make it offbeat and sound how he wants it to sound.
Metro Boomin /
Offbeat
Frame
Hears
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You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.
Alan Bates /
Offbeat
Timing
Time People Own
Badly
Perfectly
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Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He'd break the ice by taking pictures.
Paul Morrissey /
Ice
Insecure
Offbeat
Andy
Wherever
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
Zooey Deschanel / Actress
Actors
Advantage
Offbeat
People
Trying
Learnt
Take Advantage
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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 / Actor
Character
Cornered
Description
Green
Hate
Jamie
Offbeat
Reading
Script
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Even during my short film days, I approached theatres with the idea of playing them during the interval. They thought it was problematic to screen an offbeat short film in between a commercial film.
Karthik Subbaraj /
Offbeat
Interval
Problematic
Short Film
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My offbeat choices definitely don't get me too much money because they are made in a very restrained budget. We do it because we love cinema, because we are passionate about the content and new ways of storytelling.
Manoj Bajpayee /
New Ways
Offbeat
Love Money Me
Budget
Restrained
Too Much Money
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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 / Actor
Done
Offbeat
Stuff
Thinking
Worried
Pigeon-Holed
Reasons
Right Reasons
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I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.
Diane Hendricks /
Offbeat
Informed
Seek
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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 / Film Director
Cost
Fringe
Ideas
Offbeat
Television
Original
Experiment
How Much
Table
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They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can - but I can do other things. It's having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.
Charlie Heaton /
Trust
Awkward
Offbeat
Yeah
People I Can See
Outsider
Proving
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It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who's telling the story.
Dia Mirza /
Ensemble
Offbeat
Cast
Commercial
Matters
Lead
Non-Commercial
Perceived
Telling
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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 / Film Actress
Doe
Hero
Offbeat
Prove
Relax
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If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge / Actress
Offbeat
Life Good Heart
Be Strong
Clearly
Horrendous
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Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.
Travis Bradberry /
Bad News
Good News
Moving Away
Offbeat
Nearly
Interviewer
Objective
Prepare
Test
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Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.
Jeff Giles /
Armageddon
Haunting
Offbeat
Secret Agent
Sensibility
Wilson
Agent
Belong
Struggles
Sucking
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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 / Sportscaster
Quirky
Commentary
Humorous
Information
Journalism
Offbeat
Should Have
Texture
Broadcast
Ideal
Olympic
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I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance. What I wanted to capture was that significance, and as a matter of fact I think that's one of the lyrics on 'Conflict,' on the split. I touch on the significance, and really it's a selfish thing, in an offbeat way.
Phil Anselmo / Musician
Agree
Capture
Conflict
Offbeat
Selfish
Significance
Chronic
Split
Suffers
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