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Aisha Tyler

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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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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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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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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Always Geek Nerd Real Such
I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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 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 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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
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I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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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 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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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