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I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Improviser
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Television Actor
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San Francisco County
California
Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were people want to hear about the time you blew it. 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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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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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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 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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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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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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, but I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.
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You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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