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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.