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There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art.

Mindy Kaling

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Mindy Kaling
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: June 24
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I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.
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I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.
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I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.
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I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.
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I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.
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I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.
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I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.
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He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.
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It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.
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Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?
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All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.
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One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
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Because confidence is like respect you have to earn it.
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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.
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As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.
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I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.
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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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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.'
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Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away.
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