As for my feelings toward “Over the Rainbow”, it’s become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I’m sure that’s why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
JUDY GARLANDHow strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.
More Judy Garland Quotes
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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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He gave me a look at myself I’ve never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.
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I’m the original take-orders girl.
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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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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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Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you was the first thing that hit my head.
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People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience. I want to give them two hours of just pow.
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I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
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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 was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
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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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I’ve seen the ticket, and I still can’t believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don’t hit the floor.
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
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I think there’s something peculiar about me that I haven’t died. It doesn’t make sense but I refuse to die.
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