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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Dinah had all the class. "

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

" 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. "

" Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends. "

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

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

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

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

" Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. "

" Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started. "

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

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

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

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