Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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I like grown up comedy.
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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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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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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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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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