I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
AISHA TYLERWhen 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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 love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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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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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 do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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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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I 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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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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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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