Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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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 don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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