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Dreams don't have deadlines. Believe in yourself.
LL Cool J
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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
Peter Gabriel
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To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
Benicio Del Toro
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The only deadline is the one I give myself.
Mark Thomas
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
Wayne White
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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
Val Kilmer
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I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.
Ken Buck
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If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.
Marilu Henner
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Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
Chuck Close
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But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?
Diana Nyad
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Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
Sarah McLachlan
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Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.
Matt Stone
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The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
Matt Lauer
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
Aaron McGruder
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If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.
Jim Shaw
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Deadlines and things make you creative.
Jack White
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I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
Judith Weir
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Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Dave Barry
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
Brian Tracy
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If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.
Walt Disney
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I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
Tony Kushner
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
Karl Kraus
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Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.
Newt Gingrich
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Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
Hampton Fancher
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I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.
David Edelstein
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Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
Robert Barry
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I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].
Khushwant Singh
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With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
Aaron Sorkin
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We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
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I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
Jason Isbell
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On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.
Davy Rothbart
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Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
Jan Karon
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As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.
Simon Winchester
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A dream with a deadline is a goal.
Jay Samit
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In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.
Achy Obejas
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I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.
Peter Doig
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The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
Angela Carter