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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

Aisha Tyler

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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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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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 was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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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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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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I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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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 wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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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 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’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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 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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