You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
AISHA TYLERI was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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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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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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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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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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I really do know football.
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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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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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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