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

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

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

" Dinah had all the class. "

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

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

" Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make. "

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

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

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

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

" My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. "

" To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. "

" Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting. "

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

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

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

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

" Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. "

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

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

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

" Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life. "

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