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I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

Lorna Luft

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Lorna Luft
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 21
Film Actor
Film Actress
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Coping
Surviving
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Life

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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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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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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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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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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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When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
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The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your real. Because you're going into the land of make believe.
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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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I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because, Broadway is a family. And it doesn't matter if you did one show or if you did fifty shows.
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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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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.
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In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
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There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences
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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 spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
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Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
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