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.
AISHA TYLERSo everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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 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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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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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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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 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’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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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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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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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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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’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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I like grown up comedy.
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