I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
AISHA TYLERI’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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I like grown up comedy.
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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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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’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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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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