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All Quotes by author - Judy Garland

" Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. "

" A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood. "

" Behind every cloud is another cloud. "

" For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. "

" From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood. "

" Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious. "

" How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. "

" I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people. "

" I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. "

" I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here. "

" If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? "

" If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. "

" I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms. "

" I'm the original take-orders girl. "

" In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law. "

" In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. "

" I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me. "

" I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. "

" I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. "

" It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold. "

" I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. "

" I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. "

" I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor. "

" I was always lonesome. The only time I felt accepted or wanted was when I was on stage performing. I guess the stage was my only friend: the only place where I could feel comfortable. It was the only place where I felt equal and safe. "

" I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. "

" I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together. "

" My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life. "

" My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine. "

" There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted. "

" There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention. "

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