I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
AISHA TYLERI don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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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 will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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I like grown up comedy.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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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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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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 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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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 like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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