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

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

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

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

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

" When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. "

" Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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