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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I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.
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With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.
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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.
