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  • You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

    " Artie Shaw, the Reluctant 'King of Swing'", NPR, March 8, 2002.