I tried for a year, very hard, to get her out of my mind. I worked at it day and night. I figured I'd never see her again.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:04:35 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- You know who that is? Sandy.

- I didn't know she was a singer.

- She always wanted to be. That was our problem.

- When we were first married, she was working at WJW, doing singing commercials for a linoleum company.

- There was this band... Gus Gilroy and his Gaslighters. She...cut an audition record with them. And the next thing I knew, she'd run off to New York with that Gilroy character.

- She was gonna make it big.

- Did she?

- If she did, the news hasn't reached Cleveland.

- I tried for a year, very hard, to get her out of my mind. I worked at it day and night. I figured I'd never see her again.

- Just imagine, right now she's stepping on an airplane in New York, and in a few minutes, she's going to take off.

- Hey, Nureyev, you're gonna wear out your batteries. Now, cut it out! You're not a well man.

- I've been trying to reach you all morning. Where you been?

- Where have I been? I've been working, talking to witnesses, getting depositions, looking out for your interests.

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