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.
AISHA TYLERReal sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I really do know football.
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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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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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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’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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