It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
AISHA TYLERWounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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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 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 want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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.
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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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