If I’m At A Party

There Is No Sunrise So Beautiful That It Is Worth Waking Me Up To See It.

I'm The Kind Of Person Who Would Rather Get My Hopes Up Really High And Watch Them Get Dashed To Pieces Than Wisely Keep My Expectations At Bay And Hope They Are Exceeded. This Quality Has Made Me A Needy And Theatrical Friend, But Has Given Me A Spectacularly Dramatic Emotional Life.

There's Obviously Instances Where I Perceive Sexism In My Job. ... I Think That The Sort Of Sexism That I See Has Been One That's A Little Bit Like A Gentler Form Of Sexism, But Still A Little Bit Debilitating, Which Is That When, As A Producer And A Writer, Whether It Was At The Office Or [at The Mindy Project], If I Make A Decision, It'll Still Seem Like It's Up For Debate.

My Dream Of Course, As A Writer And A Person Who's An Entertainer, Is: Grow Up To Be Mindy Kaling, Don't Grow Up To Be Mindy Lahiri.

I Always Wanted To Write, Even Before I Realized That There Was A Comedy Writers' World, Or What That Life Was Like. I Never Thought Of Myself, At Least As A Little Kid, In Terms Of Being The Onscreen Talent. I Always Thought It'd Be So Much Fun To Write Sketches And Be A Writer. Even As Little As 6 Or 7, That's What My Main Interest Was.