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

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Looking Forward

" The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad? "

" I was born in a blender. "

" My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. "

" 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. "

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

" When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. "

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

" My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. "