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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e049f7a | We clung to each other with blind loyalty, like Lord Voldemort and his snake, Nagini. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| dab34e9 | One of the unexpected and wonderfully fair things I have learned in my career is that if Hollywood were filled just with perfect-looking people, then soap operas would be the most-watched things in the world. But they're not. Looks are great, but they're not compelling enough. I've noticed that successful actors with long careers are usually talented actors with charismatic screen presences, and all of them exude one thing: confidence. | hollywood inspirational success | Mindy Kaling | |
| b09fba2 | I always wanted the reboot of Ghostbusters to be four girl-ghostbusters. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| fe3bc7f | we, as consumers, are not completely satisfied with our scrutiny of women's appearances in TV and film. We also find it enjoyable to pit women against each other in fashion Hunger Games. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c46548c | Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 7bd4a6c | which I would write on Sunday afternoons sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with no pants on. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2b79f6e | I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it? And that, my friends, shall go on my tombstone. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 611a4e1 | you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them. That's why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves "worrying about" Amanda Bynes." | pop-culture women | Mindy Kaling | |
| f0d9ac2 | I didn't want to be Regis or Kathie Lee, because their chairs were too high. I'm sorry, I'm supposed to sit like that for an hour? Too much blood rushing to my ankles. No, thanks. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 43e2c47 | A paradox for sure, but such a relief. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 3aa3a44 | I bought this wand, the Tria Acne Clearing Blue Light, from my dermatologist's office. At one point I was spending so much time with the device that I started calling him Wall-E. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 090a5db | But it took me twelve weeks to realize that I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things. I should mention that I did learn a few undeniably useful things at my sorority," | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 5d9c20e | Doug appeared, clad in an Affliction waffle-knit tee and True Religion jeans. It was 2006, so this was a sign of great success. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 0a6ee86 | Note: if you want to seem like a super-creepy person, be an adult, by yourself, taking photos of children and people on a beach. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 626a2f6 | Remember, this was back in the '90s, before the only way to be a cool teenager was to have a baby or a reality show (or both). | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 6378449 | For some reason, I immediately thought about how my parents had always been especially fond of Mavis, and here was this moment when I understood exactly why: she was a good person. It felt so good to realize how smart my parents had been all along. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 65c200b | We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b42a456 | If Europe could figure out a way to do the euro, I feel confident we can do this. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 53a4027 | The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famous and busy that I only ever find these insults amusing, and chuckle at them good-naturedly before I get on my private jet to be a UN Ambassador to Cameroon, or wherever. | troll | Mindy Kaling | |
| 10a8542 | The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 9283900 | Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 819e59c | No one ever wants to hear about how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't a conversation. It'll never lead anywhere. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 02d1321 | In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time"." | india indian-culture parenting stress | Mindy Kaling | |
| b86e24e | Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and nobody can stop you. | women writing writing-process | Mindy Kaling | |
| a4fed29 | I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career." | film-industry movies women women-in-film working-women | Mindy Kaling | |
| 1a4e4e9 | I've found my productive-writing-to-screwing-around ratio to be one to seven. So, for every eight hour day of writing, there is only one good productive hour of work being done. The other seven hours are preparing for writing: pacing around the house, collapsing cardboard bxes for recycling, reading the DVD extras pamphlet from BBC Pride & Prejudice, getting snacks lined up for writing, and YouTubing toddlers who learned the 'Single Ladies'.. | writing-process | Mindy Kaling | |
| 62185ef | I do lay in some opinions here and there. For example, I don't think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are "bad with names." No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people's names isn't a neurological condition; it's a choice. You choose not to make learning people's names a priority. It's like saying, "Hey, a disclaimer about me: I'm rude." For heaven's sake, if you don't know someone's name, j.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| d375c67 | almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair. I | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 5e8f49a | Like any normal woman, I would see a dress, buy it, rip the tags off with my teeth, save the buttons for ten to twelve years in a drawer, and wear it to work. If I was going on a date, I might take a little extra care and use nail clippers to remove the tag, wear a cardigan on top, and cinch the whole look together with a wide belt. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 276ec00 | Confidence is just entitlement. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 68c50fc | Being known is really fun, extremely strange, and not very important. This | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b441f89 | Neither of us gets to be the princess all the time. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e542731 | I guess I think happiness can come in a bunch of forms, and maybe a marriage with tons of work makes people feel happy. But part of me still thinks ... is it really so hard to make it work? What happened to being pals? | Mindy Kaling | ||
| efb5739 | A sexually unapologetic fashionista tries to find love in the big city ... wait a second! This sounds like the premise of my show, The Mindy Project. But it's not my fault. I didn't come up with this format. Not many people know this, but The Mindy Project is actually based on a famous Venezuelan show called Puta Gordita, or "The Chubby Slut." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 1f4b96a | Excuse me, my sweetest little Tatianochka, sometimes I forget how time ticks! Well, | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 1d949d4 | On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather, his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm, fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| d2e531b | Why do all the men I know put their shoes on incredibly slowly? When I tie my shoelaces I can do it standing, and I'm out the door in about ten seconds. (Or, more often, I don't even tie my shoelaces. I slip my feet into my sneakers and tighten the laces in the car.) But with men, if they are putting on any kind of shoe (sneaker, Vans, dress shoe), it will take twenty times as long as when a woman does it. It has come to the point where if .. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 3933f6d | write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c925411 | Who is this invisible antiterrorist? It's me, Mindy Kaling. I was hiding behind Cee Lo's fur coat, and no one saw me. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2ee7af9 | The terrorists scramble. Who is this invisible antiterrorist? It's me, Mindy Kaling. I was hiding behind Cee Lo's fur coat, | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 6c41011 | I knew that the best way to get out of chores, or sports, or talking to elderly relatives on the phone was by holding up a book and saying, "But I'm just enjoying Little House on the Prairie so much!" | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 1fb74f1 | Fueling my fight against my dad's wishes was my enormous dislike of bikes. Bikes were horrible. Bikes always seemed to be scratching against my legs, or the spoke was poking me or something. Pebbles ended up in my ankle socks when I was on a bike. The seat felt sharp and hurt my crotch. The bike represented everything annoying and uncomfortable in my young life. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 19f7787 | Interspecies Friendships. A smart, small observational show about two animals who are friends against all odds. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ba56842 | THEY KIDNAP AND MURDER MY HUSBAND ON OUR HONEYMOON My new husband and I are vacationing in Buenos Aires. | Mindy Kaling |