Lorna Luft Quotes
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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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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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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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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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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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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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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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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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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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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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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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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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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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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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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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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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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.