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.
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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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 don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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 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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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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