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" A star needs all the rest she can get. "

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Looking Forward

" When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. "

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" When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it. "

" The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck. "

" I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping. "

" 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. "

" Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door. "

" I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. "

" 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. "