Quote by Mindy Kaling
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so

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, its completely different. – Mindy Kaling

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Anyone whos lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change – as anyone would change. – Mindy Kaling

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My dads whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didnt have that big Indian community. I dont really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, meh, lets talk about something else. – Mindy Kaling

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I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because thats what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. – Mindy Kaling

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