Quotes by Ivor Novello - Page 1

There's something Vichy about the French.
Ivor Novello / Film Score Composer
French
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Love-making is an art which must be studied.
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Art
Love Making
Studied
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There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
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Goodness
Misanthrope
Thank
Thank Goodness
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British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
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Girl
British
Temperament
Temperamental
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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
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Dream
Becoming
Careers
Composer
Infantile
Began
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You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.
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Crowds
Ifs
Want
Isolate
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Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.
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Happiness
Blessed
Laughter
Burst
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The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
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Crowds
May
Crowd
Easily
Influenced
Largely
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Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
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Effort
Require
Seldom
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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
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War
Air
Air Force
Pilots
Pilot
Served
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When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
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Appearance
Firsts
Ordinary
Theatre
Numbered
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Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
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Actors
Applause
Different
Matter
Screen
Stimulates
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The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
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Add
Average
Average Person
Enjoyment
Entertainment
Gregarious
Adds
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The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
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Actors
British
Deliberate
Emotion
Stifling
Suffering
British Actors
Suffer
Untold
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It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
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Girl
Acting
Brilliant
Deep Feeling
Feelings
Incapable
Owing
Temperament
Argued
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The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.
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Wretched
Bury
Heroine
Shoulder
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The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
Ivor Novello / Film Score Composer
Cinema
Enjoyment
Heart
Millions
People
Roots
Hearts
Institution
Millions Of People
Nowadays
Pictures
Sunk
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A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello / Film Score Composer
Change
Home
Afternoon
Cinema
Evening
Giving
Monotony
Pleasant
Surroundings
Little
Breaks
Itself
Gives
However
Outing
Visit
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We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
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Believe
Crude
Cutting
Mean
Novelty
Variety
Early Days
Provide
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The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
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Defeat
Inconvenience
Light
Long
Long Hours
Mastery
Real
Repetition
Scene
Technique
Waiting
Calculated
Glaring
Lights
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Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
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Permit
Booking
Entertained
Presence
They Say
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A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Ivor Novello / Film Score Composer
Home
Cost
Couple
Generous
Giving
Return
Seats
Avoid
Comparatively
Freedom From
Good Picture
Homes
Minds
Shape
Worries
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Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
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Sympathy
Actors
Audience
Emotion
Incapable
Lovers
May
Real
Real Life
Sincere
Temporary
Equally
Perfectly
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There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
Ivor Novello / Film Score Composer
Atmosphere
Charming
Determined
Entertainment
Holiday
Influence
Relaxation
Surroundings
Theatre
Good Music Mind
Good Music
Exert
Speaks
Visitor
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