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Children Quotes by Mindy Kaling

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Mindy Kaling’s musings on kids feel like a breezy conversation over coffee, full of relatable jokes and heartfelt moments. She captures the chaos and charm of raising the next generation with a fresh, witty perspective. Though concise, the selection offers a warm, contemporary take on childhood.

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My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

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Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

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I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through…

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“It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never…

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Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I…

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Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of…

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I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent,…

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I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to…

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“What’s that? You’ve never heard of the freshman thirty-five? That’s funny, because neither had my parents, who welcomed me home on spring…

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I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I…

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“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help…

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“When I have kids I will largely follow how my parents raised me, because, like everyone else on the planet, I think…

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“My mom’s a doctor, but because she came from India and then Africa, where childhood obesity was not a problem, she put…

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I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just…

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“As it is, I guess I find "Jack and Diane" a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can't help…

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I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.

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When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody…

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..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've…

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I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time,…

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“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help but notice…

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“As it is, I guess I find "Jack and Diane" a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can't help but notice…

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True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

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I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many…

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There's a female writer-performer thing going on in TV right now.

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Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short…

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More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

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“Even though Mavis was my secret friend, she is the only one I hope I see again. She’s the only one I wonder about.…

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I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

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“Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to…

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“Don’t be closer to twice a friend’s weight than to her actual weight,” I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off…

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