Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
AISHA TYLERSo 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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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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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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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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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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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 know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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