#ow

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#electric #extraordinary #had #her #i

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

— Lorna Luft

#behavior #had #her #horrified #last

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#addictive #families #never #our #own

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

#garland #judy #judy garland #me #memorable

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#american #between #british #cars #childhood

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

— Lorna Luft

#cigarettes #cocktails #dressing #drinking #glamourous

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#call #considered #got #i #inconvenience

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

#broke #canceled #feelings #garland #heart

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#does #envision #eyes #future #going