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.’
AISHA TYLERI can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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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.
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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 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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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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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 sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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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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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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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