Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
AISHA TYLERSuccessful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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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 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 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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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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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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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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 much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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