But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
AISHA TYLERIf you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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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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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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Successful 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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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 really do know football.
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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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