Peter Gabriel
Musician
"Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing."
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Deadline
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Mark Thomas
Comedian
"The only deadline is the one I give myself."
Diana Nyad
Long-distance swimmer
"But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?"
Matt Stone
Animator, Producer
"Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines."
Jim Shaw
Artist, Painter
"If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever."
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"There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines."
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"If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate."
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"You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death."
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"A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time"
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"Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are."
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"Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines."
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