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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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A star needs all the rest she can get.
Lorna Luft
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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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I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
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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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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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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.
Lorna Luft
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Dinah had all the class.
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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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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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There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
Lorna Luft
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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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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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
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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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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
Lorna Luft
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One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
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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 your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
Lorna Luft