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Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

~Aisha Tyler

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Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, not teaching assistants. I felt like that was a school where I could make a big splash. The opportunities would be grander and more robust for me there than at a school with 40,000 students.

~Aisha Tyler

Topics: Assistants Big Classes Could Felt Grander Like Make Me More Opportunities Our Professors Robust School Small Splash Students Taught Teaching Than Were Where Would

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I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.

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Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

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Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

~Aisha Tyler

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Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.

~Aisha Tyler

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I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I've had to say, 'No, I grew up poor.' And then I was like, 'Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that's authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?' I mean, it's ridiculous.

~Aisha Tyler

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God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

~Aisha Tyler

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If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

~Aisha Tyler

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Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.

~Aisha Tyler

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 18th, 1970

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