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.
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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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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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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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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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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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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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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