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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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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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Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
Chuck Close
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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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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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If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.
Jim Shaw
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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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Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Dave Barry
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Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.
Newt Gingrich
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
Karl Kraus
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Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
Jan Karon
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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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As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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A dream with a deadline is a goal.
Jay Samit
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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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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
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Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.
Neil Gaiman
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
Seth Godin
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My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.
Julia Glass
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
David Eagleman
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I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!
LL Cool J
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I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
Laurie Notaro
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When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.
Max Tundra