Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
AISHA TYLERI actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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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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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 don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 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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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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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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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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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’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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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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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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