Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. Mindy Kaling More Quotes by Mindy Kaling More Quotes From Mindy Kaling There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell. Mindy Kaling kissing mean sex I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal...I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection. Mindy Kaling girl beautiful thinking My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense. Mindy Kaling mom love-you relationship What Mindy has in common with a lot of women in their mid-30s is that she's obsessed with marriage. It's the entire premise of the 'The Mindy Project'. The pilot is her wanting to get married and her ruining her ex-boyfriend's wedding. For someone who fetishizes marriage so much, we're like, "OK, let's give it to her and let's see if it's as good as she thinks it's going to be." That's been the fun of the beginning part of this season is showing her what the challenges are of being married. Mindy Kaling fun giving thinking Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. 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Mindy Kaling smart fighting sex When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so much more import because it's the last time we're going to do it. It's been really helpful saying, "OK, where do we want each of these characters to end?" We have 10 episodes to do it and working backward from that, I kind of envy my friends who have always been on a cable network because this is really that great benefit of doing it this way. Mindy Kaling helpful envy character I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it. Mindy Kaling skinny self want Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude. Mindy Kaling disclaimers hey rude It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it. Mindy Kaling jail-time murder fame Skinny foodie, get away from me. Mindy Kaling get-away skinny food Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter. Mindy Kaling band boys needs What? I have a cold. Don’t get a look of terror on your face. The worst that could happen is that you’ll get a cold, too. You don’t have to theatrically Purell a thousand times a day and look all panicky every time I come into the room. Mindy Kaling faces looks rooms I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms. Mindy Kaling views people looks Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like. Mindy Kaling picks wells may I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist. Mindy Kaling fashion hate fall I want it to feel very satisfying, the ending, so you've felt like you were going on a journey and we were trying to lead you somewhere. So going into that, it's made it extremely funny but also a very emotional last season of the 'The Mindy Project' . Mindy Kaling emotional journey trying We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes, which is Mindy character can never get what she wants when she wants it. We enjoyed it because it felt very real to her character to make a big impulsive move and it seems like she has everything, this instant family, a guy she loves and then there's a moment of panic. Mindy Kaling real character moving