"When I arrive a few minutes early for this interview on a recent Friday morning, Kaling is still on her way in, so an assistant guides me into Kaling's office to wait. The workspace, one of several Kaling maintains, is a mini museum of her life and career. Behind her desk, cabinets are lined with artifacts: a collection of baseball hats from shows she's worked on; her old Dartmouth mailbox, gifted to her alma mater; the words Never Complain, Never Explain embroidered on mustard fabric in a bedazzled frame (a gift from her close friend and ex B.J. Novak)."
"It's really fascinating to me that, personally, nothing really happened the way that I imagined it would, she tells me a few minutes after she breezes into the room, petite and polished in a black Chanel cardigan, jeans, and chunky gold jewelry. Her hair is pulled back, her lips painted a glossy plum. Her plan was simple: become a comedy writer, get married at 24, have her first baby at 27, complete her family by 32. Romance, or at least the version of love depicted in the movies, loomed large in her life from an early age, and still does in her office."
"Romance, or at least the version of love depicted in the movies, loomed large in her life from an early age, and still does in her office: Her desk is mostly bare save for a small collection of books, including rom-com touchstones like Bridget Jones's Diary and the scripts for When Harry Met Sally... and Four Weddings and a Funeral (plus a pink notepad with Mindy Kaling scribbled in bubble letters and surrounded by stars)."
A mid-century Los Angeles studio office serves as a personal museum of a comedy writer’s life and career. The workspace contains show-related baseball hats, a Dartmouth mailbox, a framed motto reading “Never Complain, Never Explain,” and gifts from close friends. Family photos show her children and a selfie with her longtime collaborator. The writer describes how nothing unfolded as she imagined, despite a clear early plan to become a comedy writer, marry at 24, have a first baby at 27, and complete her family by 32. Romance remained central, reflected in books and scripts for well-known romantic comedies kept on her desk.
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