We need to realise that not everyone can take the path to overnight success. Take actors such as Rajkummar Rao and Vicky Kaushal – they have built their work and profile over the years to get to where they are.
Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn’t figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over.
Racism doesn’t go overnight. It’s over a period of time and education.
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.
Let’s not forget, what TARP did allowed us to move overnight and put capital into hundreds of banks, and that money came back plus $32 billion.
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.
Buying a house is not an overnight decision, and people can wait for 3 to 6 months.
You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you’re safe. You want to know if you’re family’s safe.
If you’re doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that’s perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them.
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen’s mission.
I don’t think you can say yes to every opportunity and work the weekends and work the overnight shift unless you’re really passionate about your job. So I encourage everyone to find their passion and go for it.
Discoveries aren’t made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren’t made overnight. People don’t see the thousands of hours that go into it.
Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.
You don’t just forget things overnight.
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set… the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it… could be dismantled overnight.
It’s doesn’t just come overnight, you’ve got to train for it and believe in yourself; that’s the most important thing.
Well, we’re just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
Being quickest in practice is nice. It builds a lot of confidence overnight.
Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.
I had started modelling and doing ramp shows. Then I signed the ‘Kama Sutra’ campaign. Overnight I became known as this sexy, hot chick.
I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it’s unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
It’s always a good idea to chill your crab cake mixture for a few hours, or even overnight, before frying because they’ll hold together better.
Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.
These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
I didn’t go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.
Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.
Tia and I have been together for 10 years. Our relationship is not just something that happened overnight. She was with me when I moved to California. I had nothing, and she was established, who had all this money, but she didn’t care. That’s how I knew she was real.
After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.
I’m on my version of the protein diet, but there ain’t no protein in it. It’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.
We didn’t really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.
My sister was cute, she said, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re an overnight success.’ ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘this is the longest night.’ I’ve been at it since 1982.
The process of wanting to clean India is not an overnight job. At the same time, if we can inspire all citizens, it would happen much more quickly.
I’ve paid my dues. It wasn’t overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions… But I’ve got to give luck some credit.
My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.
I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.
After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that’s a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That’s what we – that’s what we’ve got to rein in.
Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world’s largest industrial sites.
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can’t.
I went from basically filming in my bedroom by myself, filming some funny videos, and then overnight, I switched into filming in some studios and some warehouses and family homes. I started filming with directors and producers and editors, and there were so many people in the room, so it was definitely weird.
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.
It’s so funny, this thing of ‘overnight success.’ I’ve been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!
The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel’s conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security.
Things that look like an ‘overnight success’ typically are not.
Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It’s not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It’s still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can’t create lasting value and income overnight.
I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I’ve become a queer advocate without even meaning to.
You can’t expect a coach to come in and just change everything overnight.
The laboratory where we stored all our negatives went bankrupt overnight following the Asian economic crisis in 1997. So, on short notice, we had to retrieve all the materials in the middle of the night before the debtor-receiver took over the laboratory the next morning.
Nobody just said, ‘Here, be a star!’ I’ve joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
The passing of John Bonham… Let’s just put it… Before we say, ‘the passing of John Bonham,’ the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and ‘Good Times Bad Times,’ it changes drumming overnight.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn’t go away overnight. I’m working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I’m prepared to face the consequences.
The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn’t happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.
