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Quotes About Deadline

Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'
~ Ian Hecox
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law.
~ Bill Bryson
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion
~ Bill Bryson
We're down to nine hours." "Until?" Scout asked. The Keep was expressionless. "Something bad happens." "Right," Scout said, as if she completely understood. "Bad.
~ Bob Mayer
Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.
~ Susanna Clarke
And damn it to hell, if I don't be quiet I'll never get that Botany done! –
~ Sylvia Plath
I am writing with a blunt pencil tied on a mile-long stick, at something far off over the horizon line. Will I break through someday? At least if I get 300 pages written by the end of May, I'll have the creaking, gushing skeleton plot of the whole thing.
~ Sylvia Plath
You're running out of tomorrows." Running out of tomorrows, I repeated to myself in my room, sprawling across my bed to begin another midnight marathon of homework. Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.
~ Julie Anne Peters
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
~ Matt Lauer
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
~ Obie Trice
You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
~ Joss Whedon
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
~ Joss Whedon
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
When Kessel asked Bezos what his deadline was on developing the company's first piece of hardware, an electronic reading device, Bezos told him, "You are basically already late.
~ Brad Stone
He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.
~ Brennan Manning
I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.
~ Adam Grant
My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
~ Tom Rachman
In a crisis, time was always the enemy.
~ Stephen L. Carter
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.
~ Stephen Richards
he was, sitting in a comfortable car, sweating blood because the man was ten minutes late. He
~ Steve Martini
I have sleepless nights before press days.
~ Amanda Burton
'CSI' was an amazing experience, which, looking back, I was very lucky to get. They shoot an entire episode in eight days, so everything has to be totally slick and professional.
~ Louise Linton
I know what we need to get done to leave the E.U. in a smooth fashion - and I also know that we do not need is a lengthy extension.
~ Andrea Leadsom