“I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! … So what? Lots of people can't!”

—  Judy Garland

As quoted in Judy (1974) by Gerold Frank, p. 566

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actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States 1922–1969

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