Quotes About Deadline

Trying to write on a deadline is like trying to have an orgasm with a gun to your head.

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I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Thursday come, and the week is gone.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

The fear of the Time Out, Dallas. It can't be overstated.

Paperwork could kill.

I recorded 80 per cent of the record in my guest bedroom; then, when 'Shine' went to number one on one of the charts, the label called and said, 'Can you do an EP?' Then, 'Can you do a full length? And can you do it in two weeks?'

We said we could do a full episode - find the car, build it, complete it and shoot it - in two weeks.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

Rufus would have the boss's undivided attention for three hours, after which there would be something called a "hard stop.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, 'Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 P.M.?' So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

I made a deadline for myself that if I wasn't earning a living being a musician by 'A Boy Named Goo,' I was going to get back to school, get a degree, and go on with my life - and enjoy the memories I had.

They'll be working through until it's done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They're dining al desko.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

I decided to leave my bags there at the hotel. It was a risky move, because I knew if I didn't get back to fetch them by noon, I could be on the hook for another day's two-dollar charge.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

Finally—and this is important—a good mission has a specific time frame for its achievement.

Lose thirty pounds within the next thirty days, or I'll have Chief Horrall put you on the 'Fat Husband's Diet' recently extolled in the Ladies' Home Journal.

The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they'll actually be able to pass it in 2016.