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" Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. "

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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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" The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. "

" My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition. "

" I was born in a blender. "

" 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. "

" I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends. "

" There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. "

" I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it. "

" If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off. "

" There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on. "

" 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. "

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

" When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. "

" Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. "

" 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. "

" My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. "

" My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. "

" Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her. "

" The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. "

" A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. "

" The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. "

" Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. "

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

" One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. "

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

" I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. "

" A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. "