I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
AISHA TYLERIf you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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I grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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