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Liza Minnelli said she can't sing well enough those "special songs" of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd "rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama."

— Liza Minnelli

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You don’t know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

They used to have clauses and contracts where you can't get bad publicity or you'd get fired. But now bad publicity is good publicity. I just keep working and don't think about it much.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

My mother once told me never be a second-rate version of somebody else when you can be a first-rate version of yourself.

I don't sing them because I couldn't sing them as well as she did. I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.

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