I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
AISHA TYLERI visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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I really do know football.
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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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.
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