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You used to burst into tears if the laundry put starch in your shirts or the crepe suzette was underdone.

7 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:28:40 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- And yet you're not afraid?

- Yes and no. I'm not sure just how I feel.

- If I were openly afraid now, some of the others might become so.

- I was guilty of the cheapest theatrics right after the fire and now it seems, I'm stuck with it.

- I just want to know one thing. What happened to the biggest baby in the world? The child-man who was afraid to sleep with the lights off.

- You used to burst into tears if the laundry put starch in your shirts or the crepe suzette was underdone.

- I don't understand you, Gustave. I guess, I never will.

- Maybe it isn't important to understand you. Like the other women you've always managed to keep around.

- I've tried to tell myself I made a bargain with a throwback, a Roman emperor.

- You bought me on the market, Gustave, paid for me like you might pay for a play which you thought might turn out well.

- For 10 years I've lived with that thought and hated it.

[...]

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Actors: John Wayne (Dan Roman), Claire Trevor (May Holst), Robert Stack (John Sullivan), Jan Sterling (Sally McKee), Robert Newton (Gustave Pardee), Paul Fix (Frank Briscoe)

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