Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
AISHA TYLERI’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
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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 do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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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 thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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