You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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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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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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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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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 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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I really do know football.
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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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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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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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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 just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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