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.
AISHA TYLERBut 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 love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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When 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.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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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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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 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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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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