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.
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.
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 think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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I 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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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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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 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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