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I really do know football.
Aisha Tyler
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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
Actor
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San Francisco County
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Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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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 visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. 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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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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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 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 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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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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You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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 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 love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.
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