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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 sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
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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.
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
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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.
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I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
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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.
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When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
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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.
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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?
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