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.
AISHA TYLERWounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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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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 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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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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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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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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