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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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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
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San Francisco County
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Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.
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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. 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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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 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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Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don't like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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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 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 - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.
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I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
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I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.'
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
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I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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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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I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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