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1 " Why do you think that?” she asked sharply. It was the kind of question Peter Viertel had warned me about. When they were making The Sun Also Rises, in which she played Hemingway’s Lady Brett Ashley, he told me: “I’d show her the script, she’d ask something innocuous like, ‘Would Lady Brett say that line?’ or ‘Does Lady Brett need to say anything here? Jake [Barnes, the narrator and hero of The Sun Also Rises, played by Tyrone Power] will understand from her look what she’s thinking. There will be no need to spell it out.’ “And suddenly she’s embroiled you in an almighty argument about the script, or about the book you’re trying to write for her. You can’t reason with her because she never approaches anything intellectually. She is the most intuitive woman I know. "
― Peter Evans, Author , Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
2 " The size of Frank Sinatra's penis had been on my mind for weeks. I don't know why it was bothering me so much, but it was. "
3 " But I must say, it's a lonely business fucking someone you no longer love. Especially a husband.Tough, funny, vulgar, cynical, it was a classic Ava Gardner line. It rolled off the tongue. I didn't want to lose it. The problem was I couldn't reconcile it with something she had told me earlier--that she was "even more in love with all three of my husbands the day I left them than the day we married."-author Peter Evans "
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― Peter Evans, Author , Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys
5 " She was infuriating, bawdy, frank, and unreasonable. She was also kind, affectionate, trusting, and often touching.And I adored her.--said by the author Peter Evans "
