Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
AISHA TYLEROmnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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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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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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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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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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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 like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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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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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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