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Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined. -- Allyson Schwartz
People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case. -- Troye Sivan
I haven't had a great deal of luck with my career, have I? Maybe because I'm not pushy enough. -- Kathryn Harrold
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising. -- Bonnie Langford
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy. -- Christine Quinn
I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done. -- Christine Quinn
I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent. -- Judith Leiber
If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice. -- Christine Quinn
In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people. -- Sarah Sutton
Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely. -- Christine Quinn
I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway. -- Michael Learned
Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring. -- Juliette Binoche
There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy. -- Romola Garai
I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress. -- Dabney Coleman
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people. -- Neko Case
If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview. -- Barbara Walters
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds. -- Chelsea Cain
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences. -- Joshua Foer
I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job. -- Cindy Crawford
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others. -- Viggo Mortensen
I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment. -- Christine Quinn
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me. -- Rachel Tucker
I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'. -- John Hurt
My, my, aren't we pushy . . . -- Julie James
A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. -- Charles M. Schulz
To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize. -- Newt Gingrich
Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost. -- Hillary Clinton
Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves. -- Deborah Ann Woll
In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth. -- Karen Abbott
If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word. -- Barbara Walters
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that. -- Berenice Bejo
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it. -- Gregory David Roberts
Do you think heaven's like that?Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead. -- Tim Dorsey

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