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Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of...
MINDY KALING

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang...
MINDY KALING

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
MINDY KALING

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has di...
MINDY KALING

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge w...
MINDY KALING

I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys,...
MINDY KALING

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel al...
MINDY KALING

I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylist...
MINDY KALING

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that&...
MINDY KALING

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at...
MINDY KALING

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, '...
MINDY KALING

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People ...
MINDY KALING

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident w...
MINDY KALING

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the...
MINDY KALING

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our ...
MINDY KALING

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
MINDY KALING

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream...
MINDY KALING

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we'...
MINDY KALING

It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a s...
MINDY KALING

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday ...
MINDY KALING

The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love...
MINDY KALING

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research ...
MINDY KALING

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, bu...
MINDY KALING

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both ...
MINDY KALING

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head...
MINDY KALING

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatize...
MINDY KALING

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have ...
MINDY KALING

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time...
MINDY KALING

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find th...
MINDY KALING

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It...
MINDY KALING

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indi...
MINDY KALING

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't thi...
MINDY KALING

You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpop...
MINDY KALING

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. The...
MINDY KALING

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romanti...
MINDY KALING

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever...
MINDY KALING

This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. ...
MINDY KALING

What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings an...
MINDY KALING

That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.
MINDY KALING

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Tay...
MINDY KALING

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I wa...
MINDY KALING

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.
MINDY KALING

..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the ...
MINDY KALING

I also became familiar with an entirely new category of people: the unhappily married person. They a...
MINDY KALING

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care i...
MINDY KALING

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and ...
MINDY KALING

The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gon...
MINDY KALING

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, mis...
MINDY KALING

I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to ...
MINDY KALING

In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence...
MINDY KALING

The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exa...
MINDY KALING

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides bein...
MINDY KALING

If someone called me chubby, it would no longer be something that kept me up late at night. Being ca...
MINDY KALING

All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI—at this point he could play the Craig...
MINDY KALING

Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, ...
MINDY KALING

This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’r...
MINDY KALING

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes
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It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I ...
MINDY KALING

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demograp...
MINDY KALING

If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and...
MINDY KALING

I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan ...
MINDY KALING

We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it officia...
MINDY KALING

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pret...
MINDY KALING

I’m only marginally qualified to be giving advice at all. My body mass index is certainly not idea...
MINDY KALING

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one...
MINDY KALING

I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No...
MINDY KALING

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.
MINDY KALING

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pie...
MINDY KALING

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actr...
MINDY KALING

You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge...
MINDY KALING

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
MINDY KALING

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And...
MINDY KALING

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to differe...
MINDY KALING

As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mout...
MINDY KALING

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter....
MINDY KALING

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL&#...
MINDY KALING

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven&...
MINDY KALING

Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long delibe...
MINDY KALING

I'm a role model now. ... I want to be a better person because I don't want to disappoint those girl...
MINDY KALING

The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famou...
MINDY KALING

I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you ...
MINDY KALING

Until I realized: this long expanse of free time to rekindle friendships is not real. We will never ...
MINDY KALING

My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “...
MINDY KALING

I'm a love-it-or-hate-it person. I don't waffle.
MINDY GROSSMAN I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after pu...
MINDY MCCREADY

I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't...
MINDY GROSSMAN

There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more ...
MINDY GROSSMAN Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.
MINDY STERLING

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What ...
MINDY GROSSMAN The votes have been counted twice if not more. It's a misrepresentation. He wanted a hand count, now...
MINDY TUCKER

If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done...
MINDY GROSSMAN Curses. Jesus. It took all kinds. There wasn't anything to a curse but words. Just like blessings an...
MINDY MEJIA

I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as...
MINDY GROSSMAN Live free or die! But once you think about it, you're angry at yourself, not Doctor Bennett. He's th...
MINDY HANEY More U.S. companies realize that climate change is an enormous business issue that they need to mana...
MINDY LUBBER In a world like this, you pay it forward, 'cause more than likely you didn't deserve it when you got...
MINDY MCGINNIS I fed a squirrel a piece of a sandwich. I just couldn't get away. I started climbing the park bench.
MINDY HUTCHCROFT They were so thrilled when I said I’m a virgin,” I blurt out. “I’m so fucking stupid.”
MINDY MCGINNIS Why me, then?” I ask. “Why not Branley? She’s way hotter and was just as drunk as I was.” MINDY MCGINNIS Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, so...
MINDY CHAMBERS

I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people...
MINDY GROSSMAN My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me kno...
MINDY MCCREADY What he does not think is helpful to the country is misstatements and the spread of misinformation a...
MINDY TUCKER

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interacti...
MINDY GROSSMAN If he was paralyzed, we'd have to put in ramps and have things altered for wheelchair access; you ca...
MINDY HAMMOND It's early on a beautiful winter morning. The house is quiet. The sun is shining. I'm thankful. I'm ...
MINDY LEVY When animals make a stupid mistake, you laugh at them. A cat misjudges a leap. A dog looks overly qu...
MINDY MCGINNIS We did really well tonight, we played very well as a team. No one person really stood out, they pass...
MINDY EBMEIER I don't want an alcoholic or drug addict to think he's the only one in that situation.
MINDY GEHR It is really so easy. Our community has completed one Share the Care, and two are ongoing right now.
MINDY GRIBBLE Using this model, or something like it, helps to ease the load for everyone.
MINDY GRIBBLE We would save up our money, then we'd ride our bikes to the hardware store and buy nails.
MINDY HALL Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that G...
MINDY MCCREADY His age group isn't buying country music. Mine is.
MINDY MCCREADY Hospitals are beginning to recognize the direct relationship between the environment and the quality...
MINDY PENNYBACKER But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing ...
MINDY MCGINNIS Everyone thinks if you fix a male dog it will lower his aggression, but most of the biters are femal...
MINDY MCGINNIS Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images...
MINDY FORDHAM, THE WAKING WORLD

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