Always Kept It Real Quotes

#1. In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

Micah Baldwin

#2. The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

Jason Robert Brown

#3. Jesus always kept it real: He always responded in a way that led one to the end of ones self and presented one with a clear choice: Will I walk away feeling challenged or will I walk with Him being changed.

R. Alan Woods

#4. My books rustled by like a military of ducks. My mother had never liked my books. She'd said they kept me from real life, by which I think she meant men, or money, or both. Always accusing things of precisely the crimes they hadn't committed.
(From the short story: Once an Empire)

Rivka Galchen

#5. I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled out a story I wrote (and illustrated) back in elementary school. She used that as proof that I should be writing and had been doing so unconsciously for years.

Kim Smith

#6. The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

Scott Douglas

#7. We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.

May Sarton

#8. As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

Shana Alexander

#9. Fortune favors the prepared.

Howard Hawks

#10. During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

Peter Drucker

#11. Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

Eric Cantona

#12. I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

Brendon Urie

#13. I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

Jennifer Damiano

#14. People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

Thomas Leonard

#15. Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched a pussycat playing with stars in a black room.

Jardine Libaire

#16. I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

Edgerrin James

#17. The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?

Nick Gillespie

#18. I've got a nine iron that says otherwise.

Kiersten White

#19. I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

Julian Casablancas

#20. I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Bob Dylan