Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in ‘Leaving Las Vegas,’ I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I’d spent years doing work that hadn’t pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.
I never feel like I’ve been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There’s a fine line between saying, ‘You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do,’ and taking on board people’s opinions.
My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that’s probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.
Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.
I’d like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.
There’s nothing worse in my book than going home with energy left over. I like to go home knowing I’ve put a shift in, feeling that I’ve pushed myself to the max.
It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.
Sure, I had dreams of being a star when I was 18. I could’ve pushed it, too, but it wouldn’t have happened any sooner. I’m lucky. What’s happened has happened in spite of me.
Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it’s too close for comfort.
If I hadn’t had the music teacher I had in high school and she hadn’t really pushed me and taken that extra step, I wouldn’t have been quite as motivated.
There are definitely confines within the style of Disturbed that we needed to stay true to, but we’ve always pushed that envelope. We always continued to develop with each successive record.
With ‘Crime Alert’s first season, the channel gave me the opportunity and also pushed me to become a producer. That was something new that I explored.
Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
There are more and more of us women out there who won’t be pushed around and will give back a lot more than was bargained for. You have to mean it, though.
I’m very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it’s a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.
Being the youngest, my siblings took great care of me and pushed me in all the right directions.
I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.
If you can put yourself in an environment where you’re going to be pushed and you can show that you can overcome challenges with skill and pace that’s really important for development.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
‘Far Beyond Driven’ was a record that was probably ahead of its time, and to this day, it still sounds as fresh as just about any other band that’s out there. It was a record that was pushed to another level.
The scariest thing about ‘Roy’ was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my diction all the more along with my emotions, acting, and my dialogues. That was very challenging because it pushed me to work on my Hindi, and in a good way.
Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven’t pushed yourself hard enough.
We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.
I think it’s good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
I’ve really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I’ve been extremely well-supported.
This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.
Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.
I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.
I know for a fact that we’re not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.
While travelling in local trains during my college days, I have also faced this. I pushed and shouted at men trying to touch me but as an actor I have never faced anything like that.
My first reaction to being pigeonholed or pushed into certain confines is to be like, ‘No, I’m the opposite,’ you know? Like, don’t put me in a stereotypical black-girl category, because I’m not like that; I’m doing this thing over here.
I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn’t the right time.
I was pushed into trying Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig… and I absolutely hated it. It affected me deeply.
In practice, I think I’ve thrown it 82 yards, one time. In a game, I don’t think I’ve pushed it that far – probably 60, 65 yards in the air.
I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it’s on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.
Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie’s affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.
Gray Maynard? Kenny Florian? All these guys, they’re UFC fighters, that’s all. They’re pushed by the UFC, but when they leave the UFC, they’re forgotten. When’s the last time you heard Josh Neer’s name? You haven’t. When’s the last time you heard about Roger Hurerta? You haven’t. They’re no ones anymore.
