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I Like When There Are Complicated Relationships, That There's A Little Bit Of Self-serving Parts Of It As Well As A Devotion To A Person, And That There's A Mixture Of Both In There. It's Just I Think That's A Little More True To Life. It's Not Always Purely One Way Or The Other.

-Lisa Kudrow

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Lisa Kudrow

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I Like When There Are Complicated Relationships, That There's A Little Bit Of Self-serving Parts Of It As Well As A Devotion To A Person, And That There's A Mixture Of Both In There. It's Just I Think That's A Little More True To Life. It's Not Always Purely One Way Or The Other.

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