It wasn’t even one of those stoic pimples that goes quietly when you pop it; this one was cystic and painful and had roots that seemed to extend into my brain.
A not 100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.
It sounds odd, but cheerful is very hard to find in Los Angeles. I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.
If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.
Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
Everyone should try to live their life like they’d like to be a role model.
I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn’t talk until I was about 15. It’s a kind of famous story at my house.
I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.
There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes.
My dad’s whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn’t have that big Indian community. I don’t really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, ‘meh, let’s talk about something else.’
Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?
More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look.
I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.
I’m so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four...
When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that’s not it. It’s a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.
I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.
There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art.