How strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.
JUDY GARLANDWhen you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad — well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.
More Judy Garland Quotes
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Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we’d like each other a little bit more.
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I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
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When you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad — well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.
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There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
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I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
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I’m the original take-orders girl.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
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I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.
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My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I’ve either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
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If I’m such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I’m such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it’s out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she’s sure it’s not out of order?
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To let a fool kiss you is bad. To let a kiss fool you is worse. ‘Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
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Audiences have kept me alive.
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I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
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Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
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