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.
AISHA TYLERI wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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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’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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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Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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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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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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 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 don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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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.
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I really do know football.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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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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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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