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I don't need time. what i need is a deadline!
-Duke Ellington
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I Don't Need Time. What I Need

Duke Ellington
I don't need time. what i need is a deadline!
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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.
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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.'
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When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" being, as i said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. you don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.
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The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. if it's two days, sometimes there are things i see that don't work as well. if i have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.
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If anybody was mr. jazz it was louis armstrong. he was the epitome of jazz and always will be. he is what i call an american standard, an american original. ... i merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... i don't need time, i need a deadline. ...there are two kinds of music. good music, and the other kind. ... music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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