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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Three, Four

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• Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

  Dave Eggers

  Years, Needs, Done

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• I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Pride, Imagine

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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• If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

  Dave Brubeck

  Hate, Up Early, Normal

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• Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

  Billy Squier

  Work, Light, Mind

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• Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

  Dev Patel

  Moving, Television, Shooting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

  Chris Crutcher

  Senior, School, Men

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• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal

  Brian Tracy (2016). “Just Shut Up and Do It: 7 Steps to Conquer Your Goals”, p.35, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Writing, Night, Two

  "Writing away again in Margaritaville". Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June, 1998.

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• I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Coffee, Book, Home

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Fashion, Thinking, Months

  Source: collider.com

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• Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).

  John McCain

  Air, Years, Space

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• You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

  Rand Paul

  Spring, Government, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.

  Curtis Hanson

  Night, Space, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Scare, Impatience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Get your idea out there as fast as possible even if it’s not quite ready by setting must-hit deadlines. Let the market tell you if you have a winner or not. If not – move on and fail forward fast! If it’s got potential – then you can make it better.

  Yanik Silver

  Moving, Ideas, Winner

  Yanik Silver (2012). “Maverick Startup: 11 X-Factors to Bootstrap From Zero to Six Figures and Beyond”, p.55, Entrepreneur Press

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• I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.

  Robert Barry

  Summer, Fashion, Lines

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me.

  Ann Hood

  Grief, Laughing, Making Love

  Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline

  Emily Giffin

  Forever, Live In The Moment, Stuff

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Way, Grids

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• We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Goal, Upset

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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

  Productive, Generous

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

  Matthew Good

  Dream, Goal, Just A Dream

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• Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

  Tom Peters

  Procrastination, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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