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.
AISHA TYLERI visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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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 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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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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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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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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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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 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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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 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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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