A laugh a minute
26 Mar 2018
Mindy Kaling is a writer and actor. She is known for cleverly subverting romantic comedy tropes on her TV Show, The Mindy Project, for which she writes, directs, produces and stars.
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is
worth waking me up to see it.”
“All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark
Darcy, George VI – at this point he could play
the Craigslist Killer and people would be like,
‘Oh my God, the Craigslist Killer has the most
boyish smile!’”
“Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is
exercise, I can still do only 25 pull-ups. Pull-ups
are tough, no joke.”
“For heaven’s sake, if you don’t know
someone’s name, just pretend you do. Do that
thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say,
‘Nice to see you!’ and make weak eye contact.”
“My mum’s a doctor, but because she came
from India and then Africa, where childhood
obesity was not a problem, she put no
premium on having skinny kids. In fact, she
and my dad didn’t mind having a chubby
daughter. Part of me wonders if it even made
them feel a little prosperous, like ‘have you
seen our overweight Indian child? Do you know
how statistically rare this is?’”
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