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"Between them, my parents had 10 marriages."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"
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"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
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"I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same."
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"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
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"Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways."
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"I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents."
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"If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two."
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"My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize."
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"I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it."
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"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."
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"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."
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"When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it."
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"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."
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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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"Dinah had all the class."
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"There is a time of reckoning in all our lives."
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"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
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"There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on."
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