I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
AISHA TYLERI actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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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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I 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’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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