Aisha Tyler Quotes
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For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
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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'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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I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
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There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.
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I believe in hard work. I think that everything flows out of that.
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I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
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I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy.
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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.
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I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.
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I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.
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Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
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My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
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I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.
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I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
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You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
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My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.