Lorna Luft Quotes
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When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
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When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
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A star needs all the rest she can get.
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I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
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My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
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Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
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Dinah had all the class.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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I was born in a blender.
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A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
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I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
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There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
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Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
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Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
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The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
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One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
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The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
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When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
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People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
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My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.