Because it's one thing to muff a chance when you get it, but it's another thing never to have had a chance!

— Betty (Linda Darnell)

8 seconds sound clip from the Christmas in July (1944) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:49:49 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- And then somebody else belongs in here until he proves himself or fails, and then somebody else after him, and so on and so on for always!

- Oh, I don't know how to put it into words like Jimmy could, but all he wants, all any of them want, is a chance!

- A chance to show, to find out what they've got while they're still young and burning, like a short cut or a stepping stone.

- Oh, I know they're not going to succeed, at least most of them aren't, they'll all be like Mr. Waterbury soon enough, most of them anyway...

- But they won't mind it. They'll find something else, and they'll be happy, because they had their chance.

- Because it's one thing to muff a chance when you get it, but it's another thing never to have had a chance!

- Oh, please Mr. Baxter, his name's already on the door...

- Well, if anything decided me, that would be it.

- Oh, Mr. Baxter!

- Now you've talked enough!

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