Angela Carter Quotes

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Time is my greatest enemy.

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

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

I like to believe I perform better under pressure and at the last minute.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card.

I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?

I am a very impatient director.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

You can almost taste the pressure now.

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

The reason we don't give a date by which we will acquire something is because we don't want to create pressure on ourselves to buy something.