Fame doesn’t come overnight.
Parties don’t lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.
By bringing about a rational drug policy, we’d be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.
I wouldn’t wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.
I’m what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
People don’t become obese overnight. Allowing our children to have treats in moderation – as in trick-or-treating – is one thing, but good nutrition involves discipline that must be learned and practiced on a daily basis.
Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
I do not expect NASA to go out and build settlements and colonies. I do not expect them to give SpaceX all the money needed to colonize Mars. I do not expect them to realize the future of humanity is contingent on harvesting the wealth of the solar system overnight and suddenly subsidize my asteroid mining project.
I want to be like Tom Brady and Drew Brees and that’s something that doesn’t happen overnight. Tom didn’t play at first; Aaron Rodgers didn’t play at first.
I had left school at 16, gone to stage school – and, until I was 22, I hadn’t really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called ‘Grownups,’ which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.
Every day I have this crazy schedule that happened overnight – it’s a lot to process.
Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!
Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!
We left ‘Byker Grove,’ had a short recording career and suddenly it finished. The invites to premieres dried up and overnight things stopped. We realised very quickly how fickle this business is. Thinking you’ve lost it all makes you appreciate it a lot more and it sticks with you.
‘Pink’ is the turning point in my career. It just changed everything for me overnight.
Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that’s it. You’re successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.
We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
It was always important to me to be confident and strong with myself. It didn’t happen overnight, but I’ve learned that the only way you can start to control things is if you feel a certain way about yourself.
Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It’s a robust grain that, if overcooked, won’t collapse but will become more tender.
Change won’t happen overnight.
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.
We knew when we started we wouldn’t be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.
I believe that success either comes overnight or slowly, but steadily.
I’m a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.
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 don’t think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants.
I once started tennis lessons and turned some poor man grey overnight. Now I feign injuries when I’m asked for a game.
Things happen overnight for some people, not everyone.
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.
‘The X Factor’ is like music camp. It’s invaluable what in a short amount of time ‘The X Factor’ can do to an artist and a person’s career. It can make them a superstar overnight.
I have been doing this since I was 10 years old. It wasn’t like I was an overnight hit. I think when that happens to some actors – they just don’t know what to do with themselves. You don’t know how to cope with friends and all of a sudden not being able to go out. It’s such a shock to your system.
During an early performance of ‘Spamalot,’ I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn’t remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.
I eat five small meals a day that usually consist of overnight oats for breakfast, a green juice for a snack, salad with a protein for lunch, granola bar as a snack and then a healthy dinner of chicken or salmon and veggies, tacos or vegan chili.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
We’re not going to change overnight that we have a majority of all white male leaders.
To some people, being in the business only starts when you’re in the WWE. So I guess for those people, I’m kind of an overnight sensation.
People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.
I’m really simple. I’m just like, wash your face, keep it hydrated, moisturize every night, whether it’s a cream or serum or overnight thing. My mother’s trick – who looks amazing and has no wrinkles under her eyes – is to wear eye cream every night.
There’s no such thing as an overnight success.
Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster – a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.
The release of my first film was a very memorable event in my life. It was stardom overnight. There was a very big premiere.
Nothing happens overnight in this game.
A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China’s international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese – Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese – American relations.
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there’s a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.
‘Bahubali’ did not happen overnight. The producer Shobhu Yarlagadda, Prabhas, and I kept talking and discussing and imagining.
In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.
I mean, I’m obviously not one of those people who’s so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn’t become a star overnight.
I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.
I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.
Changing a habit or routine doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take easing into the change to make it work for you. Waking up earlier is no exception.
It’s appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight.
Overnight ratings are dead. It’s just not the way TV is sold any more.
I was an overnight sensation.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
