Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Quotes

“Neither of us gets to be the princess all the time.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“write your own part. It is the only way I’ve gotten anywhere.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“I've found my productive-writing-to-screwing-around ratio to be one to seven. So, for every eight hour day of writing, there is only one good productive hour of work being done. The other seven hours are preparing for writing: pacing around the house, collapsing cardboard bxes for recycling, reading the DVD extras pamphlet from BBC Pride & Prejudice, getting snacks lined up for writing, and YouTubing toddlers who learned the 'Single Ladies' dance. I know. Isn't that horrible? So, basically, writing this piece took me the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and nobody can stop you.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“No one ever wants to hear about how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't a conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famous and busy that I only ever find these insults amusing, and chuckle at them good-naturedly before I get on my private jet to be a UN Ambassador to Cameroon, or wherever.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I’m too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It’s that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don’t want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it’s actually the more polite thing to do, because I’m not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“If Europe could figure out a way to do the euro, I feel confident we can do this.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don’t have to make it official. It just is.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“For some reason, I immediately thought about how my parents had always been especially fond of Mavis, and here was this moment when I understood exactly why: she was a good person. It felt so good to realize how smart my parents had been all along.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“Remember, this was back in the ’90s, before the only way to be a cool teenager was to have a baby or a reality show (or both).”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“Note: if you want to seem like a super-creepy person, be an adult, by yourself, taking photos of children and people on a beach.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?:

“Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don’t have to do what they say. You can calmly say, ‘Can I first call my mom and ask if I have to do this, please?”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I didn’t want to be Regis or Kathie Lee, because their chairs were too high. I’m sorry, I’m supposed to sit like that for an hour? Too much blood rushing to my ankles. No, thanks.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I think it’s actually the more polite thing to do, because I’m not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they’re doing and hug me, too. It’s time-wasting dominoes.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“And when she’s at the door, Mark stops her and he says, “I like you, very much. Just as you are.”
It’s ridiculous that I love this so much. It’s so simple. It’s not a witty, perfectly phrased, Ephron-y declaration by our charming, neurotic hero. It’s so … plain. But the idea is the most beautiful thing in the world. So, obviously, it makes me cry.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“However, you should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now? Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away. Push, shove, scratch that person while they’re still within arm’s reach. Don’t let them get away! Who knows when you’ll get this opportunity again?”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they’re dead meat.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“All the humiliation was worth it for the one shining moment when Amy Poehler proposed we walk a few blocks together, late at night, in New York City in 2006.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Anyone who comes to visit the set of The Office always says the same thing when they leave: “Holy crap, that was scary!” This is because we shoot at the end of a dead-end street on an industrial block of Panorama City, in the San Fernando Valley, which sounds great—who doesn’t love panoramas? But don’t be fooled! The name is a trick. At one point Panorama City was part of Van Nuys, but Van Nuys did whatever the opposite of secede is to it. Expelled it? I’ll put it this way. Van Nuys took one look at Panorama City and was like, “Uh, get your own name. We don’t want to have anything to do with you.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help but notice the wasteful frivolity of it all.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Then we’d leave and have our regular dinners at our respective homes. Obviously, the waiters loathed us. In a way we were worse than the dine-and-dashers because at least the dine-and-dashers only hit up Cheesecake Factory once and never showed up again. We, on the other hand, thought we were beloved regulars and that people lit up when we walked in. We’re back, Cheesecake Factory! JLMP’s back! Your favorite cool, young people here to jazz up the joint! I know what you’re thinking, that I ditched Mavis because she wasn’t as cool as my more classically “girly” friends, but that wasn’t it. First of all, JLMP wasn’t even very cool. High school girls who have time to be super cliquey are usually not the popular girls. The actual popular girls have boyfriends, and, by that point, have chilled out on intense girl friendships to explore sex and stuff. Not us. Sex? Forget it. JLMP had given up on that happening until grad school. Yep, we were the kind of girls who, at age fourteen, pictured ourselves attending grad school. Getting a good idea of us now?”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“In the genre of “making you feel like you’re not having an awesome American high school experience,” the worst offender is actually a song: John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Jack & Diane.” It’s one of those songs—like Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven”—that everyone knows all the words to without ever having chosen to learn them.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I’m not one of those women who melts when a baby enters the room and immediately knows all the right age-specific questions to ask. I always assume the wrong things and offend someone. “Does he speak yet? Does what he says make sense, or is it still gurgle-babble?” Also, I’m always worried I’m going to accidentally scratch the kid with my fingernail or something. I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent, “Your child looks healthy and well cared for.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Not getting Lasik at this point is like being that girl in 2006 who didn’t have a cell phone.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“How I continually found myself in situations where I felt I had to say thank you to mean guys, I’m not sure.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?