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I'd start something, if it didn't work right away, I'd blow it.

4 seconds sound clip from the Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:01:23.329 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- I thought of how I won't let myself see the way you feel about the money. How it has to be your own, or we just can't last.

- And you're right. That's the way it is.

- Only don't leave me, Earle. Please, darling, don't leave me.

- I'll never leave you. I've been leaving all my life since when I can first remember.

- When the wind blew us off the land in Oklahoma, we left. After that, I never stayed. Not in the Army, not in Detroit, not anyplace.

- I'd start something, if it didn't work right away, I'd blow it.

- And it was always something. A lousy captain, or a Polack foreman in the auto works, or it'd be too slow.

- I'm getting too old to take things slow. If I don't make it now, I never will. I mean with you, too. It's now or never.

- Aren't things ever easy for you?

- Only when I get mad. Then they get too easy. I think that's why I get mad, to make it easy.

- But I got something now, and I'm going to stick with it.

- Okay, what'll it be, mister?

- Just gas. Fill it up.

[...]

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Sound Clip

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1959 film noir Odds Against Tomorrow, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Harry Belafonte (Johnny Ingram), Robert Ryan (Earl Slater), Shelley Winters (Lorry), Ed Begley (David Burke), Gloria Grahame (Helen)

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