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, ‘
AISHA TYLERI was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I like grown up comedy.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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