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.
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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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 love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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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’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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