11 seconds sound clip from the Christmas in July (1944) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:49:25 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- Oh, that's all very deep dish and high fallutin, but far from practical.
- It is practical. It's the most practical idea you ever had!
- He belongs in here because he thinks he has ideas. He belongs in here until he proves himself or fails.
- 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...
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