Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
AISHA TYLERBut I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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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 have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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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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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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 think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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