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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.