"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."
— Judy Garland

January 1, 1970

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Liza Minelli, interviewed by Gene Shalit in the September 1977 issue of The Ladies Home Journal, as quoted in "Women in the News," in The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (August 24, 1977), p. 6-D