#overnight

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave. ↗

— Katie Holmes

#became #behave #circumstances #coming #down

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#been #early #early 20s #got #had

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#gone #happened #healthy #our #overnight

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build. ↗

— John Abizaid

#new #overnight #plant #power #power plant

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight. ↗

— Chris Bell

#convictions #courage #fool #i #i think

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. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#beautiful women #become #clothes #i #into

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#behavior #china #hard #how #matter

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do. ↗

— Drew Carey

#fun #good #good job #i #i do

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

— Kelly Jones

#overnight #overnight success #own #problems #really