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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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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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What Id really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. – Mindy Kaling

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I would love to be married. But its not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids. – Mindy Kaling

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