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I told myself, 'Fine. It was a lucky break. Probably the best thing that ever happened to me.'

4 seconds sound clip from the Criss Cross (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:37:17.160 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I know it's something of a shock. I could hardly believe it either, but... She really did go to Yuma. You see...

- Well... She got married. I think what it must be, nowadays a girl will marry anybody that asks them. Imagine! A man like Slim Dundee. A man with his known character.

- I'm sorry about that table, Mr. Thompson, but...

- He kept on talking, jabbering away. I didn't hear a word of it. I couldn't think.

- So she went to Yuma. So she married Slim Dundee. Of course. He had all the dough, and that's all she ever wanted.

- I told myself, 'Fine. It was a lucky break. Probably the best thing that ever happened to me.'

- I told myself that someday I'd look back and realize it. But I was wrong. It was in the cards, and there was no way of stopping it.

- A month went by. A second, a fourth. It was all finished, done with. Water over the dam. Only, it wasn't.

- You know how it is. You don't know what to do with yourself. You want to travel, get away, anywhere.

- Every place you go, you see her face. Half the girls you pass are her. Did it ever happen to you?

- If I hadn't been hanging around the Union Station that day, if the clerk at the newsstand hadn't picked that moment to run out of cigarettes, to reach down for a fresh pack...

[...]

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Actors: Burt Lancaster (Steve Thompson), Yvonne De Carlo (Anna), Dan Duryea (Slim Dundee)

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