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

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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. "

" Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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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. "