The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
AISHA TYLERthe 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 do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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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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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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I like grown up comedy.
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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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