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" I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them. "
Mindy Kaling
Behind
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" I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York. "
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" I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through. "
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Beginning
End
" My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. "
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My Life
Single
Mom
" I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers. "
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" Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated. "
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Fast
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" I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan! "
Mindy Kaling
Hurt
Character
Me
" I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. "
Mindy Kaling
Good
Writing
Think
" What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. "
Mindy Kaling
Past
Saying
Stupidity
" I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time, I don't really know when that era was. I could watch Dana Carvey with my parents, they loved him too. They loved all his characters. "
Mindy Kaling
Time
Loved
Long
" I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. "
Mindy Kaling
Job
Writing
Great
" I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance. "
Mindy Kaling
Kind
Skin
Woman
" Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.' "
Mindy Kaling
Safe
Want
Short
" We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women. "
Mindy Kaling
Big
Fun
Think
" The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. "
Mindy Kaling
Age
You
Racism
" It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different. "
Mindy Kaling
Perfect
You
Women
" If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars. "
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Everything
Like
You
" Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true. "
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Mom
True
Weird
" On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary. "
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Feelings
Show
True
" The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations. "
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Universal
Girly
Kind
" There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. "
Mindy Kaling
Perfume
Myself
Own
" I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world. "
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Person
Woman
World
" When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny. "
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Remember
Play
Funny
" I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. "
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You
Care
Children
" I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. "
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Different
Rules
World
" Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. "
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Egos
Fragile
Most
" I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. "
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Success
Good
Book
" I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct. "
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I Am
People
See
" When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me. "
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Girl
Best
People
" Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal? "
Mindy Kaling
Oh
Writing
Me
" I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think. "
Mindy Kaling
Think
Car
Care