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“When you start out as a TV writer, you get a lot of pressure from outside forces to fit into what they think people want.”

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The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

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Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

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Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work.

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Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity.

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Working in network sitcom arenas, whenever you decide to depart from the norm and tell a story that's not typical, I think you're always…

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Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the…

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I think a lot of quote-unquote 'comedic actors' really go for the laugh and are overly straining and sort of trying.

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You don't have to be just one thing. I think that applies to women in front of and behind the camera.

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For immigrant families, television is what connects you to American culture, but it's also what makes you feel like an outsider.

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I love women who don't apologize.

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