I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
AISHA TYLERI 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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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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.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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If 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.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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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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Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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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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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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