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“If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Crush #Jealous #Phones
“I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#School #Turns
“Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Inspirational #Funny #Life
“Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Fall #Hard Work #Thinking
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Funny #Beautiful #Sleep
“I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much of what is real, is using real things and instances that are specific. Specificity is the best tool you can have, as a writer.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Real #Thinking #Tools
“Teenage girls, please donâ€™t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What Iâ€™ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, itâ€™s so wonderfully fair.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Girl #Funny Inspirational #Stars
“I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Shopping #Sweaters #Office
“I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything,”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Clothes #Way #Want
“People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to go on the road.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#People #Goes On
“Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Role Models #Trying #Roles
“"Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?" I didn't believe it, because I'm so contrarian and suspicious of everything. And then to find that it's kind of true is nice.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Nice #Believe #Trying
“I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Personality #Underdog #Defects
“Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Trying #Get Better #It Gets Better
“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 Iâ€™m talking about why Iâ€™m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art. I always get asked, â€˜Where do you get your confidence?â€™ I think people are well meaning, but itâ€™s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, â€˜You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. Youâ€™re not skinny, youâ€™re not white, youâ€™re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like youâ€™re worth anything?â€™”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Girl #Art #Inspiration
“I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four...”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Sexy #Eight #Four
“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

#Funny #Birthday #Racism
“Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Stuff #Beats
“Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Character #Men #Thinking
“As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Morning #Sleep #Clothes
“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

#Dark #Skins #Resistance
“I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Thinking #Skills #Comedy
“I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Thinking #Remember #Humans
“My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Mom #Profound #My Mom
“I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Thinking #People #Political
“I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Men #Thinking #Jeans
“I feel like I'm in the right profession.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Feels #Profession
“Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Giving #Members #Demographics
“I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Looks #Shows
“When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.”
-- Mindy Kaling

#Smart #Kids #Thinking

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