Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
AISHA TYLERI’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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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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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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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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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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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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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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