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People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.
We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
It takes 20 years to make 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.
Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.
On Twitter, there'll be fans of 'Army Wives' and people who say, 'I've been following you since 'Supernatural,' I loved you on 'Person of Interest,'' and it's really cool to get that love. To them, I'm not just an overnight success.
I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?
If you look at iPod, iPod wasn't viewed as a success, but today it's viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was the same way. People were writing about there's no physical keyboard. Obviously nobody would want it.
I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.
Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.
I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.
Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.