Top 34 Ivor Novello Quotes
#1. I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.
John Gielgud
#2. 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.
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#3. Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.
Ben Hunt
#4. Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.
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#5. You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.
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#6. Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
Richard Von Weizsaecker
#7. 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.
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#8. After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
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#9. British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
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#11. A flower won't open if I yell at it and say Bloom!
Marion Woodman
#12. [Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
Will Cuppy
#13. I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
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#14. 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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#15. There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Thankful that I can share the disturbing stories in my brain with people."
"I have so many stories to tell you...of course that is if you plan on listening to them...
Kelly Fisher
#19. 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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#20. The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
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#21. 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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#22. Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
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#23. 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.
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#24. When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#28. You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.
Jay Kristoff
#29. 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.
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#30. Too many peoples have traveled back and forth, and too many legends and tales have mingled.
George R R Martin
#31. Love-making is an art which must be studied.
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#32. Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
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#33. 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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