I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived. — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore. — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
“All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea.… — Connor de Bruler Copy Share Image
Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart… — Valley Brown Copy Share Image
I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at… — Will Champlin Copy Share Image
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that… — David Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's… — Halsey Copy Share Image
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm a socially concerned citizen of India. I have strong views on issues of social and political relevance. But it's very difficult… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
Early on, I had a girlfriend come see me, and she was like, 'Yeah, it was good, but you were funny at… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
