My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
AISHA TYLERI thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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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 will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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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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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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