Mindy Kaling Quotes
I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.
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Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.
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When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
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I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?
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Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
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Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.
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There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.
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I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.
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Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
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Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.
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If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
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I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?
