A Quote by Ann-Margret
Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.
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You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.
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