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All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have… — Wendy Beckett
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. — Thomas Carlyle
You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as… — Ricky Gervais
After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud,… — Dave Grohl
Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind… — Mooji
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be… — Charles Caleb Colton
It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it… — Fred Durst
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings… — Jesse Eisenberg
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still… — Jesse Eisenberg
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. — Samuel Johnson
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy
But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't… — Jennifer Lopez
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived. — Freddie Mercury
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based… — Marilyn Monroe
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. — Wilhelm Reich
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I… — Steven Wright
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to… — John F. Kennedy
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to… — Elizabeth Marie Pope
Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds… — Emily Bronte
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a… — Charlotte Bronte
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir
How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived… — Isaac Newton
Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the… — Kristin Cashore

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