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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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The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. Its something you dont see dramatized, but almost every minority I know whos my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. – Mindy Kaling

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Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I cant get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so its a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback. – Mindy Kaling

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Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling – that theres nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can. – Mindy Kaling

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