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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

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#address #ago #called #comes #deny

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#hardly #honest #knows #person #whether

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#career #character #done #films #had

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#characters #completely #could #different #eight

It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together. No. We're in Hollywood trying to be competitive, and get numbers, have our eyes on the Nielsens and things like that. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#disingenuous #everything #eyes #get #hollywood

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#career #done #haven #i #i think

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#away #been #convey #even #her

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

— Mindy Kaling

#earnestness #face #face value #media #people

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#bee #bees #how #i #movies