Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.
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Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.