#ted

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#experience #generally #goes #head #i

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#also #appeals #being #being honest #even

As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#annoying #because #gap #i #kid

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. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#debated #eat #fast #fast food #food

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#america #articles #bad #eighties #feeling

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. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#falling in love #fantasies #getting #getting married #going

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. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#bringing #comedy #even #feel #forget

I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn't want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit - I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#already #american woman #anything #became #because

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

#day #dress #every #every day #fitted

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#appealing #believe #camera #effort #expected