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.
AISHA TYLER“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I really do know football.
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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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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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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 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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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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 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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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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I 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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