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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
Aisha Tyler
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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
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Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love it's how I got started and is in my bones.
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When I was young I thought, 'Yeah, people don't see, they're not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am'. And the guys that mentored me were like, 'You just have to keep getting up'. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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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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I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people.
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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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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