Lorna Luft Quotes
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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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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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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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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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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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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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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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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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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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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Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
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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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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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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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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
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Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.