Quotes About Deadline

Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.

I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.

Time is my greatest enemy.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it.

The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.

The transfer deadline can be a distraction if you allow it to be.

I'm old enough to remember Bush v. Gore, and the transition there didn't start until mid-December, and yet it got done.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

Seven days until you're murder free!" "Nothing like jinxing me to add to the challenge

Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.

until after we publish.

The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.