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One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.


Meryl Streep

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CAROLINE KEPNES I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last."
-George from If We Kiss
RACHEL VAIL My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.
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