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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.

Aisha Tyler

I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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Always Game Gamer Hardcore Level Period
So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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More People Television Want Watch
Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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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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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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