No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
AISHA TYLERI’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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I 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.
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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 born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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