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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. "

Looking Forward

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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