I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
AISHA TYLERReal success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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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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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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