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Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times. -- Willard Scott
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. -- James Dickey
I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis. -- Julie Andrews
Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous. -- Judy Davis
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. -- Lorna Luft
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. -- Lorna Luft
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. -- Lorna Luft
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. -- Lorna Luft
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it. -- Lorna Luft
Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland. -- Imelda May
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. -- Liza Minnelli
Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. -- Judy Davis
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. -- Lorna Luft
It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground. -- Deborah Cox
I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did. -- Mickey Rooney
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music. -- Janelle Monae
I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though. -- Jennifer Damiano
I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am. -- Kara Lindsay
I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?' -- Mario Cantone
What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common? -- Elijah
My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. -- Lorna Luft
Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed. -- Aubrey Plaza
No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned. -- Tony Bennett
As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland. -- Allison Tolman
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable. -- Gene Weingarten
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland -- Lorna Luft
I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course. -- Tammy Blanchard
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. -- Mel Torme
Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence. -- Dahlia Lithwick
Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself. -- Aretha Franklin
We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland. -- Denis McDonough
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to? -- Pauline Kael
Judy Garland had this wonderful spontaneity that you just don't see anymore. She was such a witty, witty woman. And when you listen to her on... -- Charles Busch
A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous. -- David Letterman
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice. -- Sarah Vaughan
The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with. -- Gene Kelly
When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him! -- Jack Benny
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. -- Lorna Luft
I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great. -- Emmy Rossum
I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way. -- Tammy Blanchard
A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company. -- Mike Tyson
I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid. -- Max von Essen
I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like Cyd Charisse. But women identify with me. And while men desire Cyd Charisse, they'd take me home to meet Mom. -- June Allyson
We're happy to see, obviously, the resounding support for Judge [Merric] Garland, an unbelievable - unbelievably strong, unquestioned excellence as a judge for the last 18 years on the second highest court in the land and somebody who's dedicated his life to the law. -- Denis McDonough
I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset? -- Mario Cantone
I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift. -- Bette Midler
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones. -- Imelda May
For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante. -- Rufus Wainwright
I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own. -- Kenny Ortega
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist. -- Donald Fagen
I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland. -- Lainie Kazan
Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one. -- Rufus Wainwright
I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life. -- Diane Keaton
Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore. -- Ariana Grande
One flower makes no garland. -- George Herbert
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. -- Gautama Buddha
All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland. -- John Heywood
The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her. -- Owen Feltham
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am never afraid to serve the society. And if someone objects, I will send them a garland. -- Mayawati
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. -- John Milton
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. -- Raleigh Trevelyan
Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed. -- Philip Sidney
Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move -- Patricia Briggs
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. -- Yann Martel
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears. -- James Gates Percival
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. -- Christopher Moore

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