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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More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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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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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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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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 visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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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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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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