Lorna Luft Quotes

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The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

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

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

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

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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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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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.

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