Aisha Tyler Quotes
I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.
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I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, and you can't change a single word, it's a totally different thing. I was surprised by what that thing was.
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There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.
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I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
