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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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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
Actor
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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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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 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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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 really do know football.
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I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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 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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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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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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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I like grown up comedy.
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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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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.
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