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Your Quotes for 24 August 2005 - Deadlines

It's getting a bit nuts around here because of deadlines. Along with several minor deadlines that won't be any problem, I have a piece of art due at the end of the month - I'm sure it will get done but I'm not yet sure how. And Larkin has a deadline on the rewrite of her book, and guess who the illustrator is! With those on my mind, Deadlines was bound to be a theme this week.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
     - Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby, Procrastinator's Success Kit

Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.
     - Cynthia Heimel

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
     - Rita Mae Brown

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.
     - Sam Donaldson

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
     - Karl Kraus

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
     - Douglas Noel Adams, 1952 - 2001

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