Lorna Luft Quotes
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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 mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
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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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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
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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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Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
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The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.